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The following description requires the latest version of the PEAR package manager to be installed. |
The command line installer is the easiest way to install PEAR packages on your system: It connects to the PEAR package server via a simple HTTP connection, loads the package on your system and installs it in the desired location.
$ pear install <package>
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<package> has to be replaced with the name of the package you want to install (e.g. HTTP_Upload). To get a list of the available packages, you can point your browser to the PEAR package browser or you can run:
$ pear list-remote-packages
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This command returns a list of all packages that are available in PEAR at the moment.
If you have downloaded a package release from pear.php.net as a gzipped tar archive, you can also install it locally. To do this, run the following line on your shell:
$ pear install <file>.tgz
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This command will automatically install the package and does not require an online connection. <file>.tgz has to be replaced with the name of the downloaded file.