Posted by Reuben Budiardja on 10/21/34 11:28

tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote:

>Admittedly I've only dealt with PEAR a little bit, but the two times I installed it, it didn't seem to involve any 'executable'. PEAR appears to be totally PHP script based.
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>I dont mean to give an "RTFM" type response here, but if you follow the instructions at the PEAR installation page, it should work fine no matter what OS you're running:
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>http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.php
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Hello,
What I meant by the "pear executable" is actually a shell based (which
then run php) script that acts as the pear "frontend / package manager".
Thanks for the link and summary on how to install that manually, but I
was just curious why it wasn't built automatically when I 'make install'
php, since as I mentioned, IIRC previous version of PHP gives you this.

Thanks.
RDB

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