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 with.

pear version yields...

PEAR Version: 1.4.9
PHP Version: 5.1.6
Zend Engine Version: 2.1.0
Running on: Linux...

I ran pear upgrade pear and this message was included.

pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Archive_Tar" installed version 1.3.5 is not the recommended version 1.3.3, but may be compatible, use --force to install
pear/Archive_Tar requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.5.4), installed version is 1.4.9

Derek Adair

Posted 2010-02-15T18:07:44.337

Reputation: 355

I know how you feel; PEAR and PECL have always been kind sloppy. It's even worse for Windows. :-( – Synetech – 2012-06-28T17:56:16.053

Answers

pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.9.0

Derek Adair

Posted 2010-02-15T18:07:44.337

Reputation: 355

It's now

pear upgrade --force --alldeps http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.10.1

Then upgrade the rest

pear clear-cache
pear update-channels
pear upgrade
pear upgrade-all

powtac

Posted 2010-02-15T18:07:44.337

Reputation: 429

Using this returns a warning saying to use pear channel-update pear.php.net – mbomb007 – 2019-07-18T20:38:41.643

I am using Debian 8 and apt-get install php-pear only installs 1.9.

I then found this works:

pear upgrade pear

Dwight Walker

Posted 2010-02-15T18:07:44.337

Reputation: 21

The current stable version appears to be 1.9.0.

ceejayoz

Posted 2010-02-15T18:07:44.337

Reputation: 2 208