Installing pecl and pear on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra (< 10.13.3)

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So it looks like the new 'System Integrity Protection' lockdown of /usr (among other directories) makes pear and pecl a non-starter. Has anyone found a workaround short of disabling it?

In the end, I disabled it, did what I needed to do, then re-enabled it. — axlotl, Oct 01 '15 at 21:36
Here's a link to a Macworld article that describes how to enable and disable 'System Integrity Protection.' http://www.macworld.com/article/2986118/security/how-to-modify-system-integrity-protection-in-el-capitan.html — RichardD, Oct 02 '15 at 12:00

score 66 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '16 at 19:14

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There's a much easier way — no need to disable SIP or download your own copy:

sudo php /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin

answered Jan 22 '16 at 19:14

Paul Schreiber

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Took a while to accept because I didn't need this again until I installed Sierra and borked my whole LAMP stack (again). – axlotl Oct 10 '16 at 16:26
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This works great! But when I try to install an extension with `sudo pecl install` I get: `ERROR: failed to write /usr/lib/php/extensions/...` How can I get around this? – John J. Camilleri Oct 11 '16 at 08:05
John: try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26584599/changing-pecl-installation-directory – Paul Schreiber Oct 11 '16 at 13:27
What is -d and -b? Are they keys for phar file of for PHP? – Yevgeniy Afanasyev Feb 21 '18 at 04:17
Those are command-line flags specifying the path to (a) the PHP binary and (b) where pear should be installed. – Paul Schreiber Feb 21 '18 at 14:21
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This is not working with macOS High Sierra version 10.13.3 `Could not open input file: /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar` – kekko12 Apr 11 '18 at 10:22
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Also not working for Mohave: `Could not open input file: /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar` – Daniel Flippance Mar 22 '19 at 22:32
This should work `curl -s -O https://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar` `sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin` – Gampesh Apr 05 '19 at 10:50

kenorb · Answer 2 · 2019-04-11T00:30:56.990

You shouldn't install binaries into system /usr, use /usr/local instead.

The pecl and pear commands should come along with PHP when installing via Homebrew.

Here is the example installing PHP with the latest Homebrew:

brew install php

or the specific version:

brew install php@7.1
brew install php@5.6

To find your pecl and pear commands, run:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php)" -name pecl -o -name pear

or:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)" -name pecl -o -name pear

If you don't have it, consider uninstalling previous PHP version or run reinstall instead.

You can also try to relink it by:

brew unlink php@7.1 && brew link php@7.1 --dry-run && brew link --overwrite --force php@7.1

Otherwise, link it manually:

ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pecl)" /usr/local/bin
ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pear)" /usr/local/bin

Alternatively download Pear it directly as a Phar package:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/pear http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pear

or with this following one-liner (will work on Linux, but not on Unix):

curl -sL http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar | sudo install -v -m755 /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/pear

@GregoryBell Thanks for a good catch. Installing PHP with `--with-pear` should install pear correctly (in `/usr/local/opt/php56/bin/pear`). Then `brew link php56` will link its binary to `/usr/local/bin/pear`. — kenorb, Apr 19 '16 at 09:01
I had to use `brew unlink php56 && brew link php56 --dry-run && brew link --overwrite php@5.6 --force` in order for it to work, I had an older php 5.5 install that had some conflicts. — Juan Stiza, Jul 17 '18 at 13:12

score 52 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 26 '19 at 12:26

From this link: http://jason.pureconcepts.net/2012/10/install-pear-pecl-mac-os-x/ With this instructions, you don't need to disable 'System Integrity Protection'

The following instructions install PEAR and PECL on Mac OS X under /usr/local/. PECL is bundled with PEAR. So this is as simple as installing PEAR on Mac OS X.

PEAR is PHP’s Package Repository and makes it easy to download and install PHP tools like PHPUnit and XDebug. I specifically recommend these two for every PHP developer.

Download PEAR
curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
Configure and Install PEAR

You should now be at a prompt to configure PEAR.
Type 1 and press return.
Enter:
/usr/local/pear
Type 4 and press return.
Enter:
/usr/local/bin
Press return
Verify PEAR.

You should be able to type:
pear version
Eventually, if you use any extensions or applications from PEAR, you may need to update PHP’s include path.

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 22 '19 at 22:41

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On Mohave I had to run the following commands - thanks go to https://tobschall.de/2018/08/07/pear-on-mojave/

cd /tmp
curl -s -O https://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar
sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin

answered Mar 22 '19 at 22:41

Daniel Flippance

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 15 '18 at 11:42

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High Sierra setup:

install Brew
install PHP with Brew

There is preinstalled PEAR PACKAGE in

/usr/local/opt/php@<your_version>/bin

from there you can run

pecl install xdebug

and you should have working PHP binary with Xdebug.

answered Apr 15 '18 at 11:42

xrep

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@frumbert I know it's probably really late but you can start script file from same folder using following syntax `./pecl install xdebug`. I hope it can help someone. – Najdan Tomić Feb 08 '19 at 00:11

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 09 '16 at 23:45

This worked for me as of MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 for upgrading PHP, installing PEAR and V8

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

phpversion="$(php -v | tail -r | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -c 1,3)"
brew unlink php$phpversion

brew install php71
brew install autoconf

curl -O  http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

echo -e "\nexport PATH=$HOME/pear/bin:$PATH \n"

source ~/.bash_profile

echo -e "\ninclude_path = '.:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/pear/share/pear/' \nextension=v8js.so \n" >> /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini

git clone https://github.com/phpv8/v8js ~/tmp/v8js && cd $_
./configure CXXFLAGS="-Wno-c++11-narrowing"
make
make test
make install

sudo apachectl restart

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 07 '18 at 10:01

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Add suffix --with-pear to install pear and pecl
See example below

brew install php --with-pear
brew reinstall php --with-pear

answered Aug 07 '18 at 10:01

user3890355

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 20 '18 at 19:20

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When brew is used and not linked, use:

brew install php@5.6
brew unlink php@5.6

$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pecl
$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pear

answered Sep 20 '18 at 19:20

Mike

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 19 '21 at 10:55

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So for big sur:

brew install php

brew services start php

answered Mar 19 '21 at 10:55

Na'aman Hirschfeld

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score -1 · Answer 10 · answered May 15 '19 at 06:51

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For macOS Mojave 10.14.4 just use /local instead of /usr when asked for "Installation base ($prefix)" location.

answered May 15 '19 at 06:51

Yasir

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Installing pecl and pear on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra (< 10.13.3)

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Download PEAR

Configure and Install PEAR

Verify PEAR.

Linked