[SOLVED] PEAR WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols

[jdh23]

Hi folks,

I get the error message:

#------------

WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "channel-update pear.php.net" to update

Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pear.php.net" is not writeable by the current user

#------------

I'm using ubuntu and originally installed php when I installed XAMPP.  It seems another PEAR was installed.  I deleted the directory which was .../htdocs/PEAR

 

If I follow the instruction, pear channel-update etc. I get:

#-----------

Retrieving channel.xml from remote server

could not create lock file: failed to open stream: Permission denied

#-----------

 

and if I try "sudo channel-update pear.php.net" I get "command not found"

 

Luckily the two modules I use, HTML_Quickform and HTML_Table still work but I need HTML_Table_Matrix and I am very frustrated!  Please help!

--John

[jdh23]

the answer is to add the pear directory to the path or cd to the directory and use ./pear install foo_bar

 

Simple really.