This morning i wanted to play around with firePHP a bit. And wanted to install the PEAR package. When i found out i didn’t have PEAR running on my local (win32 xp) box. So off to the pear install. The first thing i notice was that PEAR now is packaged as a nice PHAR file (PHP 5.2.6) . So i hoped the install process would be smoother then normally. This was not the case. First thing i did was run the go-pear.bat file. Which resulted in an error.
phar “[path]go-pear.phar” does not have a signature
Warning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: pha
r “[path]go-pear.phar” does not have a signature in [path]\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘phar://go-pear.phar/index.
php’ (include_path=’.;[path][path]\PEAR’) in [path]\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236
Ok. So that didn’t work out like i wanted. I checked the go-pear.bat file. And copied the command to windows command line. This resulted in the same error. So i thought. Let’s try this from the PEAR directory. cd PEAR and let’s try that again.
php.exe -d phar.require_hash=0 go-pear.phar
Now the PEAR install runs fine.
For more information about PEAR, see:
http://pear.php.net/faq.php
http://pear.php.net/manual/
Thanks for using go-pear!
Update *
Although this solution seems to have resolved the problem for me. Cal Evans has a good post how to resolve this issue as well. My workaround didn’t solve the problem for Cal but his did for me. So here’s the link
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It worked for me. I had to add the php folder to the windows path first.
Thanks!
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I will add your blog to my RSS Feed! Thx.
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I was using wamp server and had this issue your solution didnt work however my setup is not a proper apache install etc..
anyway i got rounf this by moving the the go-pear.phar script from its location and placed it into the php5.3.0 folder and it worked.
from :: C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\PEAR
to :: C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0
now just need to work out this
Below is a suggested file layout for your new PEAR installation. To
change individual locations, type the number in front of the
directory. Type ‘all’ to change all of them or simply press Enter to
accept these locations. – wtf just install ahh
oliver dalton
11 Feb 11 at 17:17
All you need to do is add your PHP directory to your PATH environment variable. The install script assumes that you have already done this. If you’re using WAMP, you would add the following to your PATH:
C:\wamp\bin\php
Ben Rupe
9 Mar 11 at 07:30
Thanks friend! It worked like a charm. Why does it work? Is there a way to make the hash check work instead of disabling it? I am not as good on the command line as I wish, but I am learning Cygwin in an attempt to improve my skills. I wish there was a way to do this from there, as bash is way better than the dosshell imho. In any event I’ll say it again, thanks! I bow to your kung-fu.
SinthiaV
13 Sep 11 at 17:04