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.
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.
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
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
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sudo. https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/306766:linux-101-introduction-to-sudoThanks 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.
Thank you so much for the Solution, Exactly same problem i am facing.