Archive for May 2008
where is PEAR package installed?
Being a new user of (Ubuntu) Linux, there are times when I simply run out of tools I know about to do a particular task. The use of search engines in such a situation can be helpful. However, the query given to the search engine might not yield any good result due to a malformed query.
I today stuck at the problem of finding the location of PEAR package in Linux. I knew it was installed but could not find which directory it was installed in. After searching a lot in vain, pear command itself came to my rescue.
pear config-show
This command lists many configuration options of PEAR and the path (directory) information. The output from the above command on my computer contained line:
PEAR directory php_dir /usr/share/php
The directory where PEAR was installed was /usr/share/php as shown.
