If your PHP installation has been done somewhere else other than the C:\ drive, then “pear install” command may throw errors.
Example: Here in my case, the xampp has been installed into E:\ drive and the “pear install” throws error.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | E:\xampp\php>pear install PHP_CodeSniffer WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "pear channel-upd ate pear.php.net" to update downloading PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0.tgz ... Starting to download PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0.tgz (448,559 bytes) ................................................................................ ..........done: 448,559 bytes ERROR: failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\tests\PHP_CodeSniffer\CodeSniffer\Core\File |
Solution:
I get into the “pear” directory and checked config values set for different pear related directories. All were set to C:\ drive by default. So, we need to change those settings to correct path.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | pear config-set doc_dir E:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set cfg_dir E:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set data_dir E:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set test_dir E:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set www_dir E:\xampp\php\pear |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | E:\xampp\php> E:\xampp\php>pear config-set doc_dir E:\xampp\php\pear config-set succeeded E:\xampp\php>pear config-set cfg_dir E:\xampp\php\pear config-set succeeded E:\xampp\php>pear config-set data_dir E:\xampp\php\pear config-set succeeded E:\xampp\php>pear config-set test_dir E:\xampp\php\pear config-set succeeded E:\xampp\php>pear config-set www_dir E:\xampp\php\pear config-set succeeded E:\xampp\php>pear install PHP_CodeSniffer WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "pear channel-upd ate pear.php.net" to update downloading PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0.tgz ... Starting to download PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0.tgz (448,559 bytes) .............................done: 448,559 bytes install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0 E:\xampp\php> |
Now it works !! 🙂
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I have big problem for mac for above
Seems like permission issue with the current logged in user. Try with
. https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/306766:linux-101-introduction-to-sudo
Thanks you for solution !
I had the same error ‘failed to mkdir C:\php\pear\tests\PHP_CodeSniffer\CodeSniffer\Core\File’ but setting the pear config did not work for me, it would still try to install in C:\php instead of C:\xampp\php. It took me some time to find the solutiuon so I will post it here in case others have the same problem:
Run your terminal window as administrator
Apparently, if you dont, the commands pear config-set will not work. So after I ran my command window as administrator I went to c:\xampp\php and ran the commands:
pear config-set doc_dir C:\xampp\php\pear\docs
pear config-set cfg_dir C:\xampp\php\pear\cfg
pear config-set data_dir C:\xampp\php\pear\data
pear config-set man_dir C:\xampp\php\local\man
pear config-set test_dir C:\xampp\php\pear\tests
pear config-set www_dir C:\xampp\php\pear\www
pear install PHP_CodeSniffer
Finally it worked.
Thank you, thank you! After two hours of research, I found your comment. Total life saver; this solution worked for me too. Thanks!
Thanks for your blog post. I’ve just googled for this issue and found your post. Really helpful.