Getting the PEAR package manager

For all of you that are not using the latest version of PHP (> 4.3.0pre1) we provide a provisional way to install the PEAR package manager that is described on this page.

Right now you can use a shell script that resides on go-pear.org to install the PEAR base classes and the PEAR package manager. Simply run


$ lynx -source http://go-pear.org | php
     

on your console window and the rest should be done automatically.

Anmerkung: Some Linux distributions (e.g. Redhat) seem to be using links instead of lynx as the name for their command line browser. If this is the case for you, you need to change the above line correspondingly.