Pear on windows displaying different version numbers

Question

C:\PHP>pear upgrade pear
pear/pear is already installed and is the same as the released version 1.9.3
upgrade failed

C:\PHP>pear -V
PEAR Version: 1.9.0
PHP Version: 5.2.17
Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0

As you can see pear is confused to what version it is running. How can I go about fixing this so that PEAR is running on 1.9.3?

Update

C:\PHP>pear upgrade -f pear
downloading PEAR-1.9.3.tgz ...
Starting to download PEAR-1.9.3.tgz (295,774 bytes)
.............................................................done: 295,774 bytes

upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.9.3
PEAR: Optional feature webinstaller available (PEAR's web-based installer)
PEAR: Optional feature gtkinstaller available (PEAR's PHP-GTK-based installer)
PEAR: Optional feature gtk2installer available (PEAR's PHP-GTK2-based installer)

PEAR: To install optional features use "pear install pear/PEAR#featurename"

C:\PHP>pear -V
PEAR Version: 1.9.0
PHP Version: 5.2.17

Khurram Ijaz · Answer 1 · 2011-06-08T11:52:22.183

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use pear upgrade -f pear

this will force to upgrade if the upgrade version is newer

to use the channel try giving this command

pear upgrade --force pear

this will update the base pear

edited Jun 08 '11 at 11:52

answered Jun 08 '11 at 11:27

Khurram Ijaz

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try installing it pear install --alldeps pear..see what message it gives you – Khurram Ijaz Jun 08 '11 at 11:36
also use pear upgrade without any parameters – Khurram Ijaz Jun 08 '11 at 11:37
C:\PHP>pear install --alldeps pear pear/pear is already installed and is the same as the released version 1.9.3 install failed – Will Jun 08 '11 at 11:37
well there you go it is installed use command pear version .. after pear update channels .. – Khurram Ijaz Jun 08 '11 at 11:41
PEAR Version: 1.9.0. It's installed but the version numbered return is wrong. – Will Jun 08 '11 at 11:43
use this # pear channel-update pear.php.net hopefully it will overwrite the xml file – Khurram Ijaz Jun 08 '11 at 11:51

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:24

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Is pear really located in C:\PHP or just within your path? I'm thinking that for some reason, there are two PEAR installations.

answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:24

Till

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '11 at 12:25

You have two pear installations and upgrade the second pear with the first pear command.

Do a

$ pear list pear
...
script /usr/bin/pear

This is the pear script you want to execute. You are executing another one. Delete the other one and set your PATH variable to contain the correct path.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '11 at 18:42

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I uninstalled php and re-installed it again. All the problems then went away.

answered Jul 10 '11 at 18:42

Will

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