PEAR is discontinued

This is a static archive preserving historical releases and metadata. No new packages or updates will be published. For updates to existing packages, or to publish new packages, please use Composer and Packagist.

Home » File System » File » Bug #5194

Installation failure

Details

Submitted2005-08-24 07:19 UTC
Frommbolien at brightsite dot de
StatusDuplicate
PackageFile
PHP Version4.3.11
OSRedHat 8.0
Roadmaps(Not assigned)

Comments

[2005-08-24 07:19 UTC] mbolien at brightsite dot de

Description:
------------
I just installed apache2,httpd, PEAR fresh from the scratch and get this message while installing File:

$ pear install File

downloading File-1.2.1.tgz ...
Starting to download File-1.2.1.tgz (15,892 bytes)
......done: 15,892 bytes
XML error: undefined entity at line 37

the solution is very simple: there is an undefined Entity at line 37 in the file package.xml. Obviously it is the name of the programmer "<name>Helgi Þormar</name>". Removed that "Þ" and all does fine.

Test script:
---------------