How To Install php-pear on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is php-pear
php-pear is:
The PEAR package contains:
- the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages
- the PEAR_Exception PHP5 error handling mechanism
- the PEAR_ErrorStack advanced error handling mechanism
- the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism
- the OS_Guess class for retrieving info about the OS where PHP is running on
- the System class for quick handling of common operations with files and directories
- the PEAR base class Features in a nutshell:
- full support for channels
- pre-download dependency validation
- new package.xml 2.0 format allows tremendous flexibility while maintaining BC
- support for optional dependency groups and limited support for sub-packaging
- robust dependency support
- full dependency validation on uninstall
- remote install for hosts with only ftp access - no more problems with restricted host installation
- full support for mirroring
- support for bundling several packages into a single tarball
- support for static dependencies on a url-based package
- support for custom file roles and installation tasks
Package: php-pear Architecture: all Version: 1:1.10.9+submodules+notgz-1 Priority: optional Section: php Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2069 Provides: php-console-getopt, php-structures-graph, php-xml-util Depends: php-cli, php-common, php-xml Breaks: php-pear-frontend-gtk (« 0.4.0), php-pear-frontend-web (<= 0.4) Filename: pool/main/p/php-pear/php-pear_1.10.9+submodules+notgz-1_all.deb Size: 286360 MD5sum: de8ba1c592a825ac72c4b552e4f2bed2 SHA1: f713b5e815f27817e4af8d97c111fd386535fef3 SHA256: 1623fa64e9dedd9ffa4da98febb49d394aba24ead51aa9371f81277623186b4b Homepage: https://pear.php.net/package/PEAR Description-en: PEAR Base System The PEAR package contains:
- the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages
- the PEAR_Exception PHP5 error handling mechanism
- the PEAR_ErrorStack advanced error handling mechanism
- the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism
- the OS_Guess class for retrieving info about the OS where PHP is running on
- the System class for quick handling of common operations with files and directories
- the PEAR base class Features in a nutshell:
- full support for channels
- pre-download dependency validation
- new package.xml 2.0 format allows tremendous flexibility while maintaining BC
- support for optional dependency groups and limited support for sub-packaging
- robust dependency support
- full dependency validation on uninstall
- remote install for hosts with only ftp access - no more problems with restricted host installation
- full support for mirroring
- support for bundling several packages into a single tarball
- support for static dependencies on a url-based package
- support for custom file roles and installation tasks
There are three methods to install php-pear
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install php-pear Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install php-pear
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php-pear
Install php-pear Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php-pear
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php-pear
Install php-pear Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install php-pear
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php-pear
How To Uninstall php-pear on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the php-pear
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php-pear
Uninstall php-pear And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php-pear
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove php-pear
Remove php-pear Configurations and Data
To remove php-pear
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php-pear
Remove php-pear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php-pear
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php-pear
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.