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Setting up PEAR (excel) on Linux Ubuntu

First off, I have never used Pear before, I'm a complete newbie, but I need to mix php and excel so... I ran sudo apt-get install pear and that went smoothly, but I can't get any further. I tried to ...
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Pear upgrade not working in Ubuntu

When I try to upgrade Pear it shows a message on terminal as follows Will upgrade channel://pear.php.net/xml_util Will upgrade channel://pear.php.net/pear Will upgrade channel://pear.php.net/...
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Cannot install PECL ev package(OS X Yosemite)

I am trying for an hour already to install the g..amn ev package so I can use EvTimer in php but with no success. I am running sudo pecl install ev in terminal but I get the following error. /bin/sh /...
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How To Upgrade Pear To Send Email With Smtp send() Function In PHP

I want to send e-mail on ubuntu 14.04 with smtp php. But I can't send e-mail because smtp-->send function doesn't work. So that I decided to install pear mail packages. But when ı want to install php ...
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-bash: pear: command not found

When trying to install phpDoc through the Terminal I get the following error: -bash: pear: command not found Even though I have just installed pear. Prior to trying to install phpDoc I installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Cannot install PEAR

Following these instructions: How to install an updated version of PEAR / PHPUnit on Ubuntu? sudo apt-get install php-pear I get php-pear is already the newest version. then sudo pear channel-...
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Install a PEAR package without an Internet connection

I'm trying to install a package via PEAR, PHPUnit to be precise. However, the server I'm using is not connected to the Internet. I managed to find a .tgz of PHPUnit in its PEAR repository at : PEAR ...
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PearOS - Is it actually Linux?

I just downloaded PearOS 7 for both its look and the fact that it was linux... Until I thought about it. PearOS is a distro that was made by a french developer. Does it use the kernel that say... ...
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Why showing pear and phpunit is not installed in xampp on ubuntu?

I have installed xampp 1.8 on my ubuntu 12.04. In /opt/lampp/lib/php/PEAR I can see there are two directory named PEAR and PHPUnit. But when I run pear -V or phpunit from terminal it gives the below ...
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What could be the reason for php-pear being so slow on my local Ubuntu VM?

I got an Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (Beta) VirtualBox VM running and connect to it via SSH. When using "pear install" and try to install "phing/phing" from "http://pear.phing.info/" it takes ages for the ...
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ubuntu server pear not sending email no hints in log files

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a KVM virtual machine host. I selected SSH and lamp. All work nice. I copy all the files from my old website to this new server to test. All work as expected but the email ...
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Can't link Xdebug to PHP 5.4

Today I installed/updated my previous php 5.3.x to 5.4.11. Did it accordingly how do I upgrade from php 5.3 to php 5.4.6 in ubuntu? Install was successful, but it seemed to me, that xdebug was ...
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Why cannot I upgrade phpunit_selenium package in PEAR?

Currently I have PEAR v1.9.4 installed. If I perform pear list -a I see: PHPUnit_Selenium 1.2.8 stable in the middle of the response. While the latest version is 1.2.11. I've already updated ...
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Debian Squeeze can't install php-pear

I use Debian 6.0.6 sudo apt-get install php-pear results in: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable ...
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If two separate PATH directories contain a same-named executable, how does Windows choose?

I'm in the process of upgrading PEAR (PHP) on my system. The upgrade script is encouraging me to add "..\PHP\PEAR" to my PATH so that I can use "pear.bat". However, I already am able to use pear.bat. ...
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Cannot access pear.php.net from OSX Lion

I am stumped by this issue. I have 2 separate Macs that cannot access pear.php.net at all by name or IP. Here are the symptoms and steps that I took to try to resolve/narrow down this issue. $ ping ...
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cannt run phpunit tests on bash ubuntu 11.10

I'm working with Ubuntu 11.10 as root on my local machine, I've installed xampp 1.7.7 and While following a tutorial on sitepoint on how to install pear to use PhpUnit, I didn't notice it then, but ...
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How to install MDB2 for pear on Windows 7?

I am trying to install MySQL, PHP pear, and I don't know how to install MDB2 on Windows 7. Should I install Wamp first?
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How to reset PEAR configuration to default values?

I am having some PEAR issues which I assume to be PEAR/MAMP configuration related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8482265/mamp-pear-configuration-is-pointing-to-local-directories Therefore I ...
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PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method PEAR::raiseErro() in /usr/share/php/PEAR/REST.php on line 165

when running pear upgrade the following error is raised: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method PEAR::raiseErro() in /usr/share/php/PEAR/REST.php on line 165 PHP Stack trace: PHP 1. {main}() /...
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Problem with installing Pear (XAMPP)

Hello I installed the latest version of XAMPP (1.7.4) on my windows xp system. Now when i want to install Pear: k:\xampp\php>go-pear.bat I am confronted with the following error: manifest ...
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what exactly happens when I "sudo apt-get install php-pear"

I'm a little confused about the reasoning behind installing PEAR through CLI like this: //shell sudo apt-get install php-pear AFAIK Pear is just PHP library - so - that's just bunch of PHP classes. ...
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How do I upgrade pear from 1.4.9 to the latest version?

It looks like it might be 1.7.2, but I didn't find any definitive, "THIS IS THE CURRENT VERSION OF PEAR" on the pear website. I'm trying to upgrade PEAR on a system that I'm not all that familiar ...
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Error trying to install PHPUnit from PEAR

$ sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit Unknown remote channel: pear.symfony-project.com phpunit/PHPUnit requires package "channel://pear.symfony-project.com/YAML" (version >= 1.0.2) phpunit/PHPUnit ...
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How to install an updated version of PEAR / PHPUnit on Ubuntu?

Most tutorials online show how to install PEAR by doing this: sudo apt-get install php-pear This installs version 1.6.1. It works great because it's super easy! My problem is that I want to install ...
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