Command line installer

Fully-automatic installation

Using the command line installer is pretty straightforward and easy to use. Simply run the following line on your shell:

$ pear install <package>

<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

This command returns a list of all packages that are available in PEAR at the moment.

Semi-automatic installation

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

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.