Description: ------------ Trying to update to PEAR 1.4.4 this morning I ran [xxx@WNSgateway xxx]#pear upgrade PEAR downloading PEAR-1.4.4.tgz ... ...done: 276,978 bytes upgrade ok: PEAR 1.4.4 [xxx@WNSgateway xxx]# pear list-all -bash: /usr/bin/pear: No such file or directory I searched the system and could not find any trace of the files included in the scripts folder of the PEAR-1.4.4 package. I then downloaded PEAR-1.4.4.tgz, unpacked it and tried to move the files in the scripts folder into their proper places. Now when I run any pear command I get this error Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getopt2() in /usr/share/pear/System.php on line 78 Expected result: ---------------- Pear to upgrade and still have the "pear" command available to use Actual result: -------------- -bash: /usr/bin/pear: No such file or directory

I can confirm that I lost my pear command after attempting to upgrade to 1.4.4 on two separate boxes. Both exhibited identical behavior. See bug #5939 (dup of this) for details. Norman

I've recently experienced this behaviour too. I upgraded pear on two redhat servers to version 1.4.5 after reading about the upgrade available that fixes a vulnerability in versions below 1.4.3. I think the version I upgraded from was around 1.3 However, after the upgrade the /usr/bin/pear script disappeared. I upgraded the only way I know how by issuing the; # pear upgrade PEAR command. I tried the upgrade on a gentoo server too and it seemed to work fine so I guess it's an issue with redhat? I've tried copying the /usr/bin/pear script from my gentoo server (and changed the paths to /usr/share/pear) but I get no output when typing eg. # pear list Typing 'pear' gives me the list of options, but I can't us any of them. Any idea how to fix this? BTW I also tried typing 'locate peardev' but this produces no output at all

have the same problem. installed pear from the SLES 9 CD sets. then upgraded pear. and then onwards, for every command that I type, i get the missing 'getopt2' function call.

I just had to deal with this problem, so since I found very little online to help me figure it out, I thought I'd update this thread in the hopes it helps the next person... I had this problem, getting "Call to undefined function: getopt2()" in PEAR 1.4.11 (the current stable version as of today). What I discovered was that my PATH was set such that my personal installation of PEAR was NOT the one being run by my shell... my PATH was finding a system-wide PEAR installation and running it instead. It wasn't enough for me to force my local pear command to run (">./pear help")... I had to set my PATH to have my pear's bin directory ahead of the other system paths. I believe running my personal copy ("./pear") without my local pear bin being in my PATH, the other pear-related stuff that "./pear" tried to run was attempting to use the PEAR stuff it found in the system-wide installation. Since my system-wide installation is much older than my personal one, the discrepancy between what it expected to find in Getopts.php and what was in the system-wide version of it should not be a surprise. Once I added "PATH=~/my_pear_installation_dir/bin:$PATH", everything started working.