A.3. Installing Packages

The processes of installing PEAR and PECL packages should be almost identical—and for the most part, they are. There are some extensions (such as the XHProf extension we used in Section 6.5) that require you to compile them by hand.

To install a package for PEAR, you just need to run:

$ pear install <package>

This is the simplest situation—if there is a stable package with that name, it will just install. You can specify unstable packages simply by appending it to the file name:

$ pear install <package>-beta

Or for a particular version:

$ pear install <package>-0.3.1

As an example, let’s install the PEAR_PackageFileManager2 package. This package can be used to create your own packages: