It works fine for me. Sounds like you either have a problem with lynx or your php install. Try the following command:

# lynx -source http://go-pear.org/

It should tell you more (maybe you need to set up a proxy or something). Anyway, this bug is bogus.

Do you have PHP installed and correctly running?

It seems like your piping the go-pear script to the wrong place. Can you issue these commands:

which php
php -v

And will it do the same thing if you try:

lynx -source http://go-pear.org > my-pear
php my-pear

I'm marking this as bogus since it is not a doc problem.

Propably broken shell and a directory named php in current working directory?

hi,

first, sorry did the the post in this section - couldn't figure out a better place to go at once.

important note: i run a Sun Cobalt RaQ4r appliance.
it has a rather different architecture.

#which php  -- says no php in... which is partially true since php is working on the server

same for
#php -v
says it's a directory, and it's damn right:

#whereis php
php: /usr/lib/php /usr/include/php

# ls -la /usr/lib/php /usr/include/php
/usr/include/php:
total 13
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         1024 May  2 18:08 .
drwxr-xr-x   46 root     root         4096 Aug 18 22:29 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1541 Jun 21  2001 acconfig.h
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Oct  8  2002 ext
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jun  8  2004 main
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          120 Oct  8  2002 php_version.h
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jun  8  2004 regex
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jun  8  2004 TSRM
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jun  8  2004 Zend

/usr/lib/php:
total 10
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 May  2 18:07 .
drwxr-xr-x   31 root     root         8192 Aug 18 22:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jun  8  2004 build


this explains fully why the script is not working.

but what should i do now?

thank you for your advices.

btw, this worked fine:

lynx -source http://go-pear.org/

but still, if i could not find php on my system, how could i install PEAR?

Try installing the cli or cgi binary. Then it should work. It sounds like you probably have a setup where there is no binary at /usr/bin/php or /usr/local/bin/php :) If you do something like that, it should start working...

It might be worth building from source... :)

hi Klaus,

i would well love to build from src, with some tips.

i know now that the version installed is RaQ4-PHP-4.3.4
and would like to upgrade it rather than installing concurrent version, or perhaps breaking everything.

could i integrate PEAR into existing php installation, what do you think?

your help is greatly appreciated.

hi Klaus,

i would like to install PEAR from src, if i knew how.

my php version is RaQ4-PHP-4.3.4
could i upgrade existing installation with PEAR?