Upgrading PEAR to verion 1.8.1

[alex.barylski]

I have tried googling and several different things and get the same result everytime:

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spectra-server:/usr/lib# pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
Did not download optional dependencies: pear/Image_GraphViz, pear/Log, use --alldeps to download automatically
phpunit/PHPUnit requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.8.1), installed version is 1.4.11
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use package "pear/Image_GraphViz" (version >= 1.2.1)
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use package "pear/Log"
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use PHP extension "pdo_sqlite"
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use PHP extension "xdebug" (version >= 2.0.0)
No valid packages found
install failed

I have tried

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apt-get upgrade
apt-get update

And I even tried

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apt-get dist-upgrade

Then re-ran the first command at top and still...same warning. I fear I may have to installéupgrade PEAR to 1.8.1 manually but I have done this only a few times from sources and don`t really feel in the mood for tinkering with Linux right now.

Any ideas...

[Weirdan]

I guess it should be something like this:

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sudo pear upgrade PEAR
 

[alex.barylski]

I tried that but still version errors:

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spectra-server:~# pear upgrade PEAR
pear/Archive_Tar requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.5.4), installed version is 1.4.11
pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Archive_Tar" installed version 1.3.1 is not the recommended version 1.3.3, but may be compatible, use --force to install
downloading Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz ...
Starting to download Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz (4,011 bytes)
....done: 4,011 bytes
upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Getopt-1.2.3
spectra-server:~#

Am I running a really old version of Debian or something? I could swear I downloaded the latest version 5.0 -- but it's possible I installed an older copy.

Wouldn't apt-get upgrade or update bring my whole system to the latest version?

[Weirdan]

I tried that but still version errors:

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spectra-server:~# pear upgrade PEAR
[...]
pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Archive_Tar" installed version 1.3.1 is not the recommended version 1.3.3, but may be compatible, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">use --force to install</span></span>
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Wouldn't apt-get upgrade or update bring my whole system to the latest version?

dist-upgrade should update your system to the latest (stable?) Debian, sure. But it doesn't mean you would get latest versions of all software included in debian - only latest debian versions. And if you are running debian stable (and I guess you do, based on our previous conversations) these would be quite outdated versions.

[alex.barylski]

OK I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but still I'm getting errors:

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<span style="font-weight: bold">attempt one:</span>
 
spectra-server:~# pear upgrade PEAR --force
parsePackageName(): invalid package name "--force" in "--force"
invalid package name/package file "--force"
Cannot initialize '--force', invalid or missing package file
pear/Archive_Tar requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.5.4), installed version is 1.4.11
pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Archive_Tar" installed version 1.3.1 is not the recommended version 1.3.3, but may be compatible, use --force to install
Package "--force" is not valid
No valid packages found
upgrade failed
 
<span style="font-weight: bold">attempt two:</span>
 
spectra-server:~# pear upgrade PEAR use --force
No releases available for package "pear.php.net/use"
Cannot initialize 'use', invalid or missing package file
parsePackageName(): invalid package name "--force" in "--force"
invalid package name/package file "--force"
Cannot initialize '--force', invalid or missing package file
pear/Archive_Tar requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.5.4), installed version is 1.4.11
pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Archive_Tar" installed version 1.3.1 is not the recommended version 1.3.3, but may be compatible, use --force to install
Package "use" is not valid
Package "--force" is not valid
No valid packages found
upgrade failed

[Weirdan]

order of arguments matters:

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pear upgrade --force PEAR
 

[alex.barylski]

Excellent thank you

[thehoffr]

I tried the --force option, looked like everything went ok, but not version does not change, and trying to install phing will fail requiring > v1.8 ...

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D:\xampp\php>pear upgrade --force PEAR

downloading PEAR-1.9.0.tgz ...
Starting to download PEAR-1.9.0.tgz (291,634 bytes)
.............................................................done: 291,634 bytes

upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.9.0

PEAR: Optional feature webinstaller available (PEAR's web-based installer)
PEAR: Optional feature gtkinstaller available (PEAR's PHP-GTK-based installer)
PEAR: Optional feature gtk2installer available (PEAR's PHP-GTK2-based installer)
PEAR: To install optional features use "pear install pear/PEAR#featurename"

D:\xampp\php>pear channel-discover pear.phing.info
Channel "pear.phing.info" is already initialized

D:\xampp\php>pear install phing/phing
Did not download optional dependencies: phing/phingdocs, pear/VersionControl_SVN, channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit, pecl/
Xdebug, pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager, use --alldeps to download automatically

phing/phing requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.8.0), installed version is 1.7.2

phing/phing can optionally use package "phing/phingdocs" (version >= 2.4.0)
phing/phing can optionally use package "pear/VersionControl_SVN" (version >= 0.3.2)
phing/phing can optionally use package "channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit" (version >= 3.4.0)
phing/phing can optionally use package "pecl/Xdebug" (version >= 2.0.5)
phing/phing can optionally use package "pear/PEAR_PackageFileManager" (version >= 1.5.2)

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D:\xampp\php>pear version

PEAR Version: 1.7.2
PHP Version: 5.2.9
Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0
Running on: Windows NT LAPTOP 6.0 build 6002