How to uninstall a pear package?

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What is the command to uninstall a pear package?

score 63 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '09 at 21:53

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pear uninstall [options] [channel/]<package>

So if you wanted to uninstall PHPUnit

pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit

Note: remember to preface with sudo or you won't have permission to uninstall anything.

answered Oct 14 '09 at 21:53

Andrew

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Assuming you installed pear into a root only location. It's possible to setup pear to use your local user account (something like ~/PEAR) in which case the sudo isn't needed. – Alana Storm Oct 14 '09 at 22:15

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '09 at 21:53

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pear uninstall package_name

You can read about it here in the PHP Cookbook

answered Oct 14 '09 at 21:53

Ólafur Waage

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 21 '11 at 14:58

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If you're on a RPM Linux Distro, it's simple with YUM

If you installed a PEAR package with YUM you can uninstall with YUM as well.

yum install php-pear-db

to install and

yum remove php-pear-db

to remove.

edited Nov 21 '11 at 14:58

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answered Oct 15 '09 at 12:06

Phill Pafford

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The question is: how to uninstall *a* PEAR package, PEAR is a repository of packages. You're answering the question how to uninstall *the* PEAR package, which is a piece of Linux software. – Niels Bom Nov 18 '11 at 10:12
@NielsBom Yes I understand the difference but some of PEAR's packages can be install with YUM/Apt-Get/etc.. (Other packet managers). So yum remove php-pear* should remove any Pear packages that were install with YUM. – Phill Pafford Nov 18 '11 at 14:24
And how would you then uninstall a _specific_ PEAR package using this command? – Niels Bom Nov 21 '11 at 14:19
Again let me stress, if you installed a PEAR package with YUM you can uninstall with YUM as well. yum install php-pear-db to install yum remove php-pear-db to remove. The OP never states how they installed the Pear Package this is why I said IF you're on a RPM Linux Distro – Phill Pafford Nov 21 '11 at 14:22
I've edited your answer to include part of your last comment. – Niels Bom Nov 21 '11 at 14:52

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 14 '14 at 09:25

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The uninstall command removes a package and accepts a list of installed packages to remove as arguments.

Plugins must be explicitly uninstalled with the -p or --plugin option. Plugins are installed into the location specified by the plugins_dir configuration variable, which defaults to the same location that the user configuration file is located ($HOME/.pear in unix, \pear on windows).

php pyrus.phar uninstall -p PEAR2_Pyrus_Developer

How to uninstall a pear package?

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