How do I correctly install PHPUnit with PEAR?

Question

I have had to de- and reinstall a newer version of PHPUnit following these directions. Now when I\'m launching this line

sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPU         


        

Answer 1

Following Plínio César, I solved it finally, but with slight variation:

First I did a "sudo apt-get remove phpunit" to remove the faulty installation. Then using pear to do the phpunit installation:

sudo pear install pear.symfony.com/Yaml

sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de

sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1

sudo pear install --alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

Thanks Plinio Cesar!!!

Answer 2

I had the same problem while upgrading my phpunit.

This solved the problem:

pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
pear install pear.symfony.com/Yaml

Then run:

pear install --alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

OBS: I think the pear install pear.symfony.com/Yaml is not necessary. I'm just posting it because it is exactly the way I solved my problem.

Answer 3

Process mentioned by PutzKipa works however you might need super user privileges. For ubuntu add sudo before each command.

Answer 4

The easiest way to obtain PHPUnit in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or OpenSUSE is to download a PHP Archive (PHAR) that has all required (as well as some optional) dependencies of PHPUnit bundled in a single file.

Open the terminal and type:

wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar  # download the PHP Archive (PHAR) file  
chmod +x phpunit.phar   
sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit   

There are many different versions of phpunit.phar at https://phar.phpunit.de/. If you use the first command, it will select and download the latest version.

Note: The /usr/local/bin/ path in the last command is correct for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE distributions and also for other Linux distributions that have a /usr/local/bin/ directory.

_{Reference: What is /usr/local/bin? Came across it in an script installation for Applescript but would like to know more}

Answer 5

I also had this error message:

Unknown remote channel: pear.symfony.com

Solved creating an alias:

pear channel-alias pear.symfony-project.com pear.symfony.com

and then

channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no

sudo pear update-channels

sudo pear upgrade-all

sudo pear install --force --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

Answer 6

Use this, as described in the PHPUnit docs: (i don't what sudo means, this is how I do it on a windows PC):

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