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- PEAR - The PEAR Installer
- =========================
- Installing the PEAR Installer.
-
- You should install PEAR on a local development machine first. Installing
- PEAR on a remote production machine should only be done after you are
- familiar with PEAR and have tested code using PEAR on your development
- machine.
-
- There are two methods of installing PEAR
- - PEAR bundled in PHP
- - go-pear
-
- We will first examine how to install PEAR that is bundled with PHP.
-
- Microsoft Windows
- =================
- If you are running PHP 5.2.0 or newer, simply download and
- run the windows installer (.msi) and PEAR can be automatically
- installed.
-
- Otherwise, for older PHP versions, download the .zip of windows,
- there is a script included with your PHP distribution that is called
- "go-pear". You must open a command box in order to run it. Click
- "start" then click "Run..." and type "cmd.exe" to open a command box.
- Use "cd" to change directory to the location of PHP where you unzipped it,
- and run the go-pear command.
-
- Unix
- ====
- make sure you have enabled default extensions, and if you want faster
- downloads, enable the zlib extension. You must also enable the CLI
- SAPI with the --enable-cli extension directive. After this, simply run:
-
- make install-pear
-
- and PEAR will be automatically configured for you.
-
- go-pear
- =======
- For users who cannot perform the above steps, or who wish to obtain the
- latest PEAR with a slightly higher risk of failure, use go-pear. go-pear
- is obtained by downloading http://go-pear.org and saving it as go-pear.php.
- After downloading, simply run "php go-pear.php" or open it in a web browser
- (windows only) to download and install PEAR.
-
- You can always ask general installation questions on pear-general@lists.php.net,
- a public mailing list devoted to support for PEAR packages and installation-
- related issues.
-
- Happy PHPing, we hope PEAR will be a great tool for your development work!
-
- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 2006/09/22 03:31:36 cellog Exp $