Posted by tg-php on 10/20/97 11:28

I believe you're right, they used to include it with PHP. I believe the PEAR docs even say something about it being included. Maybe they don't anymore so you have to go to the PEAR site to get the latest installer. That way they don't get people using an older installer/package manager that may not be the latest update. *shrug*

Either way, the info I sent earlier should get you up and running in no time.

Good luck!

-TG

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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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