ignatius dot teo at gmail dot com (2011-11-08 14:56:37)
On CentOS/RHEL (+cPanel) installations, if you get a "checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs", you may need to remount the /tmp and /var/tmp with exec permissions first:
$ mount -o remount,exec,suid /tmp
$ mount -o remount,exec,suid /var/tmp
Then:
$ pecl install {package}
And, don't forget to remount them as noexec after.
kis at grosshat dot com (2008-06-04 01:52:08)
If it's not running for you even PEAR installed try to make an upgrade of PEAR (pear upgrade PEAR).
rbemrose at gmail dot com (2007-03-16 22:04:54)
If you are using a Debian sarge system (currently the stable release) with php4-pear installed, you will still not have a pecl command.
The fix to this is to upgrade pear.
Unfortunately, pear upgrade PEAR will also error out stating that you need pear-1.3.3 minimum.
The fix to this is to specify the version of pear that you want to install. In case it wasn't obvious, that means you want to
pear upgrade PEAR-1.3.3
pear upgrade-all