Installing pecl and pear on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra (< 10.13.3)

Question

So it looks like the new 'System Integrity Protection' lockdown of /usr (among other directories) makes pear and pecl a non-starter. Has anyone found a workaround short of disabling it?

Answer 1

There's a much easier way — no need to disable SIP or download your own copy:

sudo php /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin

Answer 2

You shouldn't install binaries into system /usr, use /usr/local instead.

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The pecl and pear commands should come along with PHP when installing via Homebrew.

Here is the example installing PHP with the latest Homebrew:

brew install php

or the specific version:

brew install php@7.1
brew install php@5.6

To find your pecl and pear commands, run:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php)" -name pecl -o -name pear

or:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)" -name pecl -o -name pear

If you don't have it, consider uninstalling previous PHP version or run reinstall instead.

You can also try to relink it by:

brew unlink php@7.1 && brew link php@7.1 --dry-run && brew link --overwrite --force php@7.1

Otherwise, link it manually:

ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pecl)" /usr/local/bin
ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pear)" /usr/local/bin

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Alternatively download Pear it directly as a Phar package:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/pear http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pear

or with this following one-liner (will work on Linux, but not on Unix):

curl -sL http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar | sudo install -v -m755 /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/pear

Answer 3

From this link: http://jason.pureconcepts.net/2012/10/install-pear-pecl-mac-os-x/ With this instructions, you don't need to disable 'System Integrity Protection'

The following instructions install PEAR and PECL on Mac OS X under /usr/local/. PECL is bundled with PEAR. So this is as simple as installing PEAR on Mac OS X.

PEAR is PHP’s Package Repository and makes it easy to download and install PHP tools like PHPUnit and XDebug. I specifically recommend these two for every PHP developer.

Download PEAR

curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

Configure and Install PEAR

You should now be at a prompt to configure PEAR.

1. Type 1 and press return.

2. Enter:

   /usr/local/pear
   

3. Type 4 and press return.

4. Enter:

   /usr/local/bin
   

5. Press return

Verify PEAR.

You should be able to type:

pear version

Eventually, if you use any extensions or applications from PEAR, you may need to update PHP’s include path.

Answer 4

On Mohave I had to run the following commands - thanks go to https://tobschall.de/2018/08/07/pear-on-mojave/

cd /tmp
curl -s -O https://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar
sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin

Answer 5

Add suffix --with-pear to install pear and pecl
See example below

brew install php --with-pear
brew reinstall php --with-pear

Answer 6

Here's a link to a Macworld article that describes how to enable and disable 'System Integrity Protection.'

http://www.macworld.com/article/2986118/security/how-to-modify-system-integrity-protection-in-el-capitan.html

Answer 7

This worked for me as of MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 for upgrading PHP, installing PEAR and V8

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

phpversion="$(php -v | tail -r | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -c 1,3)"
brew unlink php$phpversion

brew install php71
brew install autoconf

curl -O  http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

echo -e "\nexport PATH=$HOME/pear/bin:$PATH \n"

source ~/.bash_profile

echo -e "\ninclude_path = '.:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/pear/share/pear/' \nextension=v8js.so \n" >> /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini

git clone https://github.com/phpv8/v8js ~/tmp/v8js && cd $_
./configure CXXFLAGS="-Wno-c++11-narrowing"
make
make test
make install

sudo apachectl restart

Answer 8

High Sierra setup:

• install Brew
• install PHP with Brew

There is preinstalled PEAR PACKAGE in

/usr/local/opt/php@<your_version>/bin

from there you can run

pecl install xdebug

and you should have working PHP binary with Xdebug.

Answer 9

When brew is used and not linked, use:

brew install php@5.6
brew unlink php@5.6

$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pecl
$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pear

Answer 10

For macOS Mojave 10.14.4 just use /local instead of /usr when asked for "Installation base ($prefix)" location.