How to upgrade PHP PEAR from 1.2.1 to 1.6.2

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chris
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: How to upgrade PHP PEAR from 1.2.1 to 1.6.2

Problem: Trying to install some PEAR package X after a long time

 	  Code:	
	  
pear install X

you get tons of

 	  Code:	
	  
Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _element_end_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _element_end_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

and at the end:

 	  Code:	
	  
Notice: Undefined index:  package in Common.php on line 1140

The following errors where found (use force option to install anyway):

missing package name

missing summary

missing description

missing license

missing version

missing release state

missing release date

missing release notes

no maintainer(s)

no files

Reason: Obviously, your PEAR does not understand the package format, therefore it must be too old.

How old?

Let's see how old it was in my case:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear -V

PEAR Version: 1.2.1

PHP Version: 4.3.3

Zend Engine Version: 1.3.0

Solution: There was a long and stony way till I reached a solution...Here's the full story with all the painful details:

Trying to upgrade pear failed:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade pear

downloading PEAR-1.7.0RC2.tgz ...

...done: 298,557 bytes

requires package `PEAR' >= 1.3.3

requires package `Archive_Tar' >= 1.3.1

requires package `Console_Getopt' >= 1.2

requires package `Structures_Graph' >= 1.0.2

PEAR: Dependencies failed

Following the advice in the PEAR website (see the News of Jan 3rd, 2008), I tried:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/Archive_Tar http://pear.php.net/get/XML_Parser http://pear.php.net/get/Console_Getopt

but got:

 	  Code:	
	  
downloading Archive_Tar-1.3.2.tgz ...

...done: 17,150 bytes

upgrade ok: Archive_Tar 1.3.2

downloading XML_Parser-1.2.8.tgz ...

...done: 13,476 bytes

upgrade ok: XML_Parser 1.2.8

downloading Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz ...

...done: 4,011 bytes

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _element_start_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _element_end_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler _pkginfo_cdata_2_0() in Common.php on line 777

...

Notice: Undefined index:  package in Common.php on line 1140

warning : the following errors were found:

missing package name

missing summary

missing description

missing license

missing version

missing release state

missing release date

missing release notes

no maintainer(s)

no files

Notice: Undefined index:  package in Installer.php on line 599

 not installed

From the above messages, we see that Archive_Tar and XML_Parser were upgraded ok, but Console_Getopt failed, probably because it needs an updated PEAR.

So I tried:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.3.6

but this did not work:

 	  Code:	
	  
Could not open the package file: PEAR-1.3.6

I guessed this had to do with the change from XML-RPC to REST in the PEAR website. So I thought that maybe I had to try:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.6

Well, no...no way:

 	  Code:	
	  
downloading PEAR-1.3.6.tgz ...

...done: 106,880 bytes

requires package `Console_Getopt' >= 1.2

requires package `XML_RPC' >= 1.4.0

PEAR: Dependencies failed

Thus PEAR required Console_Getopt >= 1.2, and XML_RPC >= 1.4.0, but Console_Getopt required a newer PEAR...

I tried to fullfill at least the dependency on XML_RPC:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/XML_RPC

downloading XML_RPC-1.5.1.tgz ...

...done: 32,215 bytes

upgrade ok: XML_RPC 1.5.1

and this worked, so at least XML_RPC was now up-to-date.

Idea

As in the case of Upgrading PEAR on Red Hat Enterprise ES 3, my problem seemed to be the Console_Getopt package. I had an old version of it:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear list | grep Getopt

Console_Getopt       1.0         stable

I thus tried to install Console_Getopt manually:

I downloaded version 1.2.3 from

http://download.pear.php.net/package/Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz

and extracted it somewhere. It contained two files:

package.xml
Console_Getopt-1.2.3/Console/Getopt.php

I deleted package.xml and moved Getopt.php to

/usr/share/php/Console/

Exclamation

I backed up my old /usr/share/php/Console/Getopt.php first!

I changed the owner and group of the new Getopt.php from 100.cruise Rolling Eyes

to root.root:

 	  Code:	
	  
chown root.root Getopt.php

and retried upgrading PEAR:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.6

downloading PEAR-1.3.6.tgz ...

...done: 106,880 bytes

requires package `Console_Getopt' >= 1.2

PEAR: Dependencies failed

Now this was bitter: I had upgraded Getopt to 1.2.3, I had told pear to "force" the upgrade and nonetheless I was getting

 	  Code:	
	  
requires package `Console_Getopt' >= 1.2

again!

There was no way around it: I had to dig even deeper!

Idea

I decided to change the version of the Console_Getopt package manually. This could only be consistent with my action of manually upgrading Console_Getopt above.

But where do I start? How to change the version of an installed PEAR package manually?

It turned out that all I had to do is change to the

/usr/share/php/.registry

directory (notice the dot - this is a hidden directory under /usr/share/php!) and open the registry file

console_getopt.reg

which, to my luck, is just a plain text file. Somewhere in the long strings there I found this piece of text:

 	  Code:	
	  
s:7:"version";s:3:"1.0";

I changed the "1.0" to "1.2.3" and hoped for the best...

oops...this time I got:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.6

downloading PEAR-1.3.6.tgz ...

...done: 106,880 bytes

Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 692 of 1395 bytes in Registry.php on line 339

requires package `Console_Getopt' >= 1.2

PEAR: Dependencies failed

Notice the

 	  Code:	
	  
Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 692 of 1395 bytes in Registry.php on line 339

line. It was in fact telling me that I had just shot up the PEAR registry!

Idea

I had one chance more: change the version string in the registry file (/usr/share/php/.registry/console_getopt.reg) from "1.2.3" to "1.2":

 	  Code:	
	  
s:7:"version";s:3:"1.2";

AND THAT WORKED! Very Happy

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.6

downloading PEAR-1.3.6.tgz ...

...done: 106,880 bytes

upgrade ok: PEAR 1.3.6

Now, having upgraded PEAR to the intermediate version 1.3.6, and with all other required packages in place (XML_Parser, XML_RPC, Archive_Tar and above all: Console_Getopt!), I was ready for the big leap to version 1.4.3:

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.3.tar

downloading PEAR-1.4.3.tar ...

Starting to download PEAR-1.4.3.tar (1,745,408 bytes)

.................................done: 1,745,408 bytes

upgrade ok: PEAR 1.4.3

BINGO!

A final

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade PEAR

brought my PEAR installation up-to-date:

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

downloading PEAR-1.6.2.tgz ...

Starting to download PEAR-1.6.2.tgz (297,794 bytes)

......done: 297,794 bytes

downloading Structures_Graph-1.0.2.tgz ...

Starting to download Structures_Graph-1.0.2.tgz (30,947 bytes)

...done: 30,947 bytes

downloading Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz ...

Starting to download Console_Getopt-1.2.3.tgz (4,011 bytes)

...done: 4,011 bytes

upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Getopt-1.2.3

upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Structures_Graph-1.0.2

upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.6.2

PEAR: Optional feature webinstaller available (PEAR's web-based installer)

PEAR: Optional feature gtkinstaller available (PEAR's PHP-GTK-based installer)

PEAR: Optional feature gtk2installer available (PEAR's PHP-GTK2-based installer)

To install use "pear install PEAR#featurename"

With

 	  Code:	
	  
pear upgrade-all

(takes a while...don't get impatient...)

I was able to finally upgrade my packages too. Phew...time for a beer!

Cheers! Very Happy

_________________
Regards

Chris Karakas
www.karakas-online.de

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