How to reset PEAR configuration to default values?

Question

I am having some PEAR issues which I assume to be PEAR/MAMP configuration related:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8482265/mamp-pear-configuration-is-pointing-to-local-directories

Therefore I would like to reset the PEAR configuration to default values.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

after some digging, the solution is the following:

check where your configuration files are located:

pear config-show

in my case:

• User Configuration File: /Users/udos/.pearrc
• System Configuration File: /private/etc/pear.conf

note:
you can edit PEAR configuration with command

pear config-set [options] <parameter> <value> [layer]

the interesting part is [layer]. the default is user which affects

• User Configuration File: /Users/udos/.pearrc

alternatively you can use system which affects

• System Configuration File: /private/etc/pear.conf

to reset PEAR configuration you have to delete both configuration files.