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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 44345

How to fix error when installing pear in order to install phpunit?

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Basically, I need to install phpunit on Ubuntu 12.04. By doing so with the packet manager I get an error when running phpunit:

PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'PHP/CodeCoverage/Filter.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /usr/bin/phpunit on line 38

for which there are solutions, i.e. to install phpunit with pear.

Following the pear install instructions I download and run go-pear.phar, which itself produces an error

PHP Notice:  Uninitialized string offset: 0 in phar:///home/alexander/opt/src/go-pear.phar/Console/Getopt.php on line 145

Any suggestions how to proceed from here? I also ONLY need phpunit, so pear will be used just for this case once.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1400

Answers (2)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 44345

The installation of phpunit really seems to be extremly complicated and circumstantial, but here is the solution:

  • As for Ubuntu 12.04 pear should be already installed
  • However, the latest version of pear should be used
  • And phpunit need to be removed before it is reinstalled

The whole procedure and each step is described on symfony-world, one might need the additional step shown in the given comment. Here is a copy-and-paste of the complete procedure for Ubuntu 12.04: 

sudo apt-get remove phpunit
sudo apt-get upgrade pear
sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
sudo pear update-channels
sudo pear upgrade-all
sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

Upvotes: 1

Artjom Kurapov
Artjom Kurapov

Reputation: 6155

if you need only phpunit, use composer.. For example composer.json may look like:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

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