Where do PEAR packages normally get installed?

Question

I am using a Debian squeeze server. I have installed PEAR using aptitude install php-pear. This created a directory /usr/share/php/PEAR.

I installed some PEAR packages including Phing. I installed the Phing files using pear install --alldeps phing/phing and the files showed up in /usr/share/php/phing.

But shouldn't PEAR packages (under normal circumstances) be put in /usr/share/php/PEAR? When I run

pear config-get php_dir

I get "/usr/share/php". Have I got something configured wrong?

Submariner

Answer 1

/usr/share/php/

is correct for Debian.

/usr/share/php/PEAR

itself contains classes for PEAR itself.

The reason for using /usr/share/php is that the pear CLI tool is an installer that installs libraries (or applications) for PHP - choosing php is thus correct.

Schopenhauer

PEAR was not meant for this. But you could try with a custom config that you pass with the -c parameter - but that one does not support relative paths. – Schopenhauer

Answer 2

Yes, that is the correct directory on Debian, and Ubuntu.

Regardless of which O/S you are using, you can find the correct install directory by running: pear config-get php_dir via a console. And you get full directory path.

For example, with XAMPP application on Microsoft Window you have to go to XAMPP installation directory path <<XAMPP Installation folder path>>/bin and use ./pear config-get php_dir which lead to execute the binary file using current location and do the same job.

Medulla

This should be the accepted answer. Not only does it show a non-specific OS solution, it also compensates for the situation where an admin configures PEAR to be located in a non-default location. – Smut

Answer 3

in case php is installed in /usr/local/php

pear is here:

/usr/local/php/lib/php

Masters

Answer 4

On my 64-bit Ubuntu system, the pear packages are installed to /usr/share/php/PEAR/, but I do not know how to change the pear install path. Maybe you can configure this somewhere.

Kitts

Answer 5

I am using Mac OSX Lion. I installed pear in /usr/lib/php/pear

So the data also be installed there.

Beckett

Answer 6

On my installation of Debian PEAR is located here:

/usr/local/lib/php

Vange

Answer 7

Just throwing this out there, in case you have pear installed in a round-about way:

cd /
find . -type d -name pear

For example, I was using MAMP on one of my local machines and it was in a really weird place.

Donettedoney

This helped. Im using cPanel. – Pradeep

Answer 8

If you're using CPanel to install them they're much likely to be located in

./opt/cpanel/ea-php{VERSION}/root/usr/share/pear

Halford