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[2006-06-14 06:53 UTC] mikkel at linet dot dk

Description:
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I have almost never been able to use the "pear" command. I always times out before downloading packages. like:

[root@tux ~]# pear install --alldeps Mail
Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/Mail-1.1.10.tgz", cannot download "pear/Mail"
Error: cannot download "pear/Mail"
Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/Net_SMTP-1.2.8.tgz", cannot download "pear/Net_SMTP"
Error: cannot download "pear/Net_SMTP"
Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/Net_Socket-1.0.6.tgz", cannot download "pear/Net_Socket"
Error: cannot download "pear/Net_Socket"
Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/Auth_SASL-1.0.2.tgz", cannot download "pear/Auth_SASL"
Error: cannot download "pear/Auth_SASL"

When going to you webside and finding the packages and trying to download it can't. (firefox)

This is not just a temporary problem with your server, it has been like this for years, I think it about works 1 out off 10 times I have tryied.

It is really annoying when you reaaly need a package to get on with your work, that you have to find it on google.

Where is the mirror sites for pear.php.net ?

[2006-09-14 15:02 UTC] brandon dot petersen at gmail dot com

I had the same issue as described. The problem happened because I initially installed a local pear repository as the root user. The next day, I changed the permissions to another user account, but that user couldn't install any new packages because the /tmp/pear/ directory was still present from the previous day, and it was owned by the root user.

After I removed the /tmp/pear/ directory, I was able to install new PEAR packages without any problems.