Where do PEAR packages normally get installed?

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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?

cweiske · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-31T20:09:08.147

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/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.

edited Jul 31 '12 at 20:09

answered Apr 06 '11 at 13:10

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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. – cweiske Aug 20 '17 at 06:34

score 24 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 29 '21 at 18:16

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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.

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answered May 23 '16 at 13:08

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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. – James John McGuire 'Jahmic' Oct 13 '17 at 15:28

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 20 '14 at 10:07

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

pear is here:

/usr/local/php/lib/php

answered May 20 '14 at 10:07

Nick

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 19:41

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

So the data also be installed there.

answered Mar 06 '13 at 19:41

itsazzad

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 14 '15 at 11:56

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On my installation of Debian PEAR is located here:

/usr/local/lib/php

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answered Aug 14 '15 at 10:57

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 02 '18 at 21:12

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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.

answered Mar 02 '18 at 21:12

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This helped. Im using cPanel. – Tomas Gonzalez Oct 20 '18 at 18:43

score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 12 '19 at 04:09

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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.

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answered Mar 17 '11 at 02:59

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 04 '20 at 20:29

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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

answered Feb 04 '20 at 20:29

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Where do PEAR packages normally get installed?

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