Why am I receiving an error when installing PEAR?

Question

I am trying to install PEAR for use with PHP. As i read on the installation instructions at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php , I am supposed to run the fil

Answer 1

Maybe this is what you are looking for.

Here are the steps:

1) Locate the "php.ini" file. In my case, I found it at this path:

C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.ini

Don't use the WAMP system tray icon to edit this file. It didn't work when I tried - you have to manually locate it.

2) Find the following line, in bold:

; http://php.net/phar.require-hash;phar.require_hash = On ; http://php.net/phar.require-hash

;phar.require_hash = On

3) Uncomment the ";phar.require_hash = On" line by removing the semi-colon.

4) Change "On" to "Off".

; http://php.net/phar.require-hash

phar.require_hash = Off

5) Save the file.

After I performed those steps, "go-pear.bat" began working normally again.

Answer 2

you should be able to start it without editing php.ini using :

PATH/TO/php.exe -d phar.require_hash=0 PATH/TO/go-pear.phar