PEAR package install fails

Question

i try to install packages from pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools

First of all command pear config-get php_dir returns D:\Users\xampp\php\pear and I do not have rights to install on C drive.

Then according the instructions from http://phpqatools.org/ I enter :

pear config-set auto_discover 1
pear install pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools

I have also tried to enter: pear install --alldeps pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools

But result of all these attempts is a failure...

This is a log:

Package "pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit" has no releases
Unknown remote channel: pear.pdepend.org
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpmd.org
Unknown remote channel: components.ez.no
Package "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit_SkeletonGenerator" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/Text_Template" has
no releases
Package "pear.phpunit.de/phpcpd" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/File_Iterator" has no releases
Package "pear.phpunit.de/phpcpd" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/PHP_Timer" has no releases
Unknown remote channel: components.ez.no
Package "pear.phpunit.de/phploc" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/File_Iterator" has no releases
Unknown remote channel: components.ez.no
Package "pear.phpqatools.org/PHP_CodeBrowser" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/File_Iterator" has no rel
eases
Failed to download pear/Text_Highlighter within preferred state "stable", latest release is version
 0.7.3, stability "beta", use "channel://pear.php.net/Text_Highlighter-0.7.3" to install
Package "pear.phpqatools.org/PHP_CodeBrowser" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit" has no releases
Package "pear.phpqatools.org/PHP_CodeBrowser" dependency "pear.php.net/PhpDocumentor" has no releas
es
Package "pear.php.net/PHP_CodeSniffer" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/PHP_Timer" has no releases
Package "pear.phpunit.de/DbUnit" dependency "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit" has no releases
Package "pear.phpunit.de/DbUnit" dependency "pear.symfony-project.com/YAML" has no releases
WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2"
WARNING: "pear/Auth_SASL" is deprecated in favor of "pear/Auth_SASL2"
phpqatools/phpqatools requires package "channel://pear.pdepend.org/PHP_Depend"
phpqatools/phpqatools requires package "channel://pear.phpmd.org/PHP_PMD"
phpunit/PHPUnit_SkeletonGenerator requires package "channel://components.ez.no/ConsoleTools" (versi
on >= 1.6)
phpunit/phpcpd requires package "channel://components.ez.no/ConsoleTools" (version >= 1.6)
phpunit/phploc requires package "channel://components.ez.no/ConsoleTools" (version >= 1.6)
phpunit/phploc can optionally use PHP extension "bytekit"
phpqatools/PHP_CodeBrowser can optionally use package "pear/Text_Highlighter" (version >= 0.7.1)
downloading PHP_CodeBrowser-1.0.3.tgz ...
Starting to download PHP_CodeBrowser-1.0.3.tgz (172,253 bytes)
.....................................done: 172,253 bytes
downloading PHP_CodeSniffer-1.3.6.tgz ...
Starting to download PHP_CodeSniffer-1.3.6.tgz (352,931 bytes)
...done: 352,931 bytes
downloading DbUnit-1.1.2.tgz ...
Starting to download DbUnit-1.1.2.tgz (41,895 bytes)
...done: 41,895 bytes
downloading Console_CommandLine-1.1.3.tgz ...
Starting to download Console_CommandLine-1.1.3.tgz (38,507 bytes)
...done: 38,507 bytes
downloading Log-1.12.7.tgz ...
Starting to download Log-1.12.7.tgz (46,898 bytes)
...done: 46,898 bytes
downloading DB-1.7.14.tgz ...
Starting to download DB-1.7.14.tgz (133,103 bytes)
...done: 133,103 bytes
downloading MDB2-2.4.1.tgz ...
Starting to download MDB2-2.4.1.tgz (119,790 bytes)
...done: 119,790 bytes
downloading Mail-1.2.0.tgz ...
Starting to download Mail-1.2.0.tgz (23,214 bytes)
...done: 23,214 bytes
downloading Net_SMTP-1.6.1.tgz ...
Starting to download Net_SMTP-1.6.1.tgz (13,164 bytes)
...done: 13,164 bytes
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\tests\PHP_CodeSniffer\CodeSniffer\Core\File
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\docs\DbUnit\Samples\BankAccountDB\_files
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\data\Console_CommandLine\data
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\docs\Log\docs
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\docs\DB\doc
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\docs\MDB2\docs\examples
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\tests\Mail\tests
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\docs\Net_SMTP\docs
ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\data\PHP_CodeBrowser\templates\css

I don't understand why install tries to mkdir on C:\php\pear\ and also how to solve problems with unknown remove channels...

Answer 1

The only way I found to get pear working when using Xamp is do delete the folder and reinstall it from scratch. The pear client (for a long time the very very broken 1.9.2 version) doesn't work properly even when in the excepted location but there is no sane way to fix it when you install xamp somewhere else as the path is set in way to many files.

Follow the guide on http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php.

Download http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar, execute it, select system wide install and adapt all the pathes to your location.

Once that is working and pear version reports 1.9.4 use

pear config-set auto_discover 1
pear install --force --alldeps pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools

to "fix" anything the old installation left over.

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Just using that version of pear should fix all your Package and channel troubles too.

It it, for some reason, doesn't use

pear channel-discover $everyChannelThatDoesNotWork
pear channel-update $thatChannel

for everything that gets reported as a problem.