26.2.1. ProblemYou want a listing of PEAR packages. From this list you want to learn more about each package and decide if you want to install it. 26.2.2. SolutionBrowse packages at http://pear.php.net/packages.php or search for packages at http://pear.php.net/search.php. Use pear's remote-list command to get a listing of PEAR packages or the search command to search for packages. Explore listings of PEAR channel servers at PEAR Channel directory web sites http://www.upear.com/ or http://pear.php.net/channels/. 26.2.3. DiscussionThere are a few ways to review available PEAR and PEAR-compatible packages. First, to browse the listings of official PEAR packages in a directory-style fashion, go to http://pear.php.net/packages.php. From there you can burrow into each individual PEAR category. Alternatively, you can search through the listings at the following address: http://pear.php.net/search.php. The search page allows you to search by package name, author, category and release date. You can also ask the PEAR installer to provide you with a listing using the remote-list command: % pear remote-list Channel pear.php.net Available packages: ======================================== Package Version Auth_HTTP 2.1.6 Auth 1.3.0 Auth_SASL 1.0.1 LiveUser 0.16.11 Auth_PrefManager 1.1.4 Auth_RADIUS 1.0.4 ... XML_Indexing 0.3.6 XML_Feed_Parser 0.3.0beta XML_RPC2 0.0.7 XML_Query2XML 0.6.0 The short form of remote-list is rl. You may also query compatible PEAR Channel servers for available packages using the remote-list command with the -c flag specifying the channel to query. In order to do so, you must first make the PEAR installer aware of the alternate channel server. For example: % pear channel-discover pearified.com Adding Channel "pearified.com" succeeded Discovery of channel "pearified.com" succeeded % pear remote-list -c pearified Retrieving data...0%....50%.... Channel pearified Available packages: ===================================== Package Version Editors_FCKeditor 2.2.0 Editors_TinyMCE 2.0.1 Icons_Silk 1.3.0 ... Role_Web 1.1.1 SimpleTest 1.0.0 Smarty 2.6.8 To search for package names from the command line, use the search command: % pear search auth Retrieving data...0%....50%.... Matched packages, channel pear.php.net: ======================================= Package Stable/(Latest) Local Auth 1.3.0/(1.3.0 stable) 1.3.0 Creating an authentication system. Auth_HTTP 2.1.6/(2.1.6 stable) HTTP authentication Auth_PrefManager 1.1.4/(1.1.4 stable) 1.1.4 Preferences management class Auth_PrefManager2 -n/a-/(2.0.0dev1 alpha) Preferences management class Auth_RADIUS 1.0.4/(1.0.4 stable) Wrapper Classes for the RADIUS PECL. Auth_SASL 1.0.1/(1.0.1 stable) Abstraction of various SASL mechanism responses This does a case-insensitive search of package names and returns the package name; the latest stable version; the latest version at any of dev, alpha, or beta states; the version you have installed locally (if any); and a short description about the package. 26.2.4. See AlsoRecipe 26.3 to find more information about a package. |