PEAR on Windows: How to change pear.ini location

Question

I am trying to install a PEAR package into my recent XAMPP PHP installation (PHP 5.3.1) on Windows 7 64-bit.

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Answer 1

In windows 7 i use powershell.

you can set the PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR variable and then run a pear command. For Example:

$env:PEAR_CONFIG_SYSCONFDIR = 'c:\path_to_xampp\php'
pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit