How to install libraries with pear when no release is available

Question

This is not the first time I experience something like that. This time it was with PHPunit.

I wanted to install the library using pear..

pear config-set auto_discover 1
pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

The installation fails saying :

No releases available for package "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit"

What can I do ?

Thank you

Note :

pear upgrade says that I have the latest version

pear update-channels says that I am up to date

Note2 : I am at work so behing a proxy

Note3: using windows OS

Answer 1

I found it in another post. the cache has to be cleared.

pear clear-cache

Answer 2

In Windows Explorer, go to your WAMP PHP installation folder (default will be C:\wamp\bin\php\php[version]). Create a new directory called “PEAR” here. Download the PEAR phar installer https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar and place it in the new directory above. Fire up a cmd window (Start and search for “cmd”) as administrator Change to your new directory

(default command will be “cd C:\wamp\bin\php\php[version]\PEAR”)

Run the following command: “php go-pear.phar”. The first thing that the installer will ask is whether you are installing a system wide copy of PEAR. Since you are probably working on a development machine, either is fine. Just press enter to install system wide. Next, the installer will show you a bunch of paths that it automatically calculated by using it’s current location on your disc.

Answer 3

You mentioned you are behind a proxy, you may then need to set it explicitly, with something like the following:

$ pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@proxy.example.com:80