[imp] PEAR not found problem

[Eric S. Johansson]

thanks for the reply.  Yes, when I installed horde/imp I did install 
pear-4.1.0.tar.gz.  Unfortunately, the upgrade process wiped it out.  But 
something you just said gave me the clue I needed.  I was tired when I was 
restoring it and I restored to the wrong directory.  Because the install 
process overwrites existing directories, I didn't see the mistake until 
this morning.

A suggestion to the developers for future releases.  If you are going to 
overwrite something that is provided by the vendor, DON'T.  It's a great 
source of errors.  Instead, put the new version somewhere else and change 
some path variable in the configuration to refer to the new version in 
preference to the default version.  It's significantly less error prone.

Jon, thanks again for the help and the clue to my own mistake.

---eric


At 12:31 AM 4/18/2002 -0400, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>When you installed horde/imp, did you install pear-4.1.0.tar.gz in
>/usr/share/php?  Is the upgraded version still there?
>
>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>
> > Fatal error: Failed opening required 'PEAR.php'
> > (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in
> > /usr/share/php/HTML/IT_Error.php on line 20
> >
> > I installed horde/imp at a client site on Red Hat 7.2 and had it all
> > running nicely.  Then Red Hat upgraded PHP via up2date and now I'm getting
> > the wonderful error seen above.  A google search turned up nothing.  Any
> > pointers to FM TR would be welcome.
> >
> > ---eric
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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