Install PEAR on Wampserver 2.2e

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Hello all,

I downloaded and install the latest version of wampserver on windows 7, 32-bits and after much tutorials, I realised the need for PEAR. Several tutorials said a PEAR directory was supposed to be bundled along with the wampserver installation; unfortunately that was not so. There is no PEAR directory anywhere on the default installation (c:\wamp).
So I went online again to seek solutions and downloaded go-pear.phar (go-pear.phar), placed it in the directory C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3 and tried to install from the cmd but always get an error.

Beginning install...
PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method PEAR_Error::set() in pha
in/php/php5.4.3/go-pear.phar/PEAR/Start.php on line 301
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar:0
PHP   2. require_once() C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar:1236
PHP   3. PEAR_Start_CLI->run() phar://C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.3/go-p
x.php:7
PHP   4. PEAR_Start->doInstall() phar://C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.3/go
AR/Start/CLI.php:57

Fatal error: Call to undefined method PEAR_Error::set() in phar://C
p/php5.4.3/go-pear.phar/PEAR/Start.php on line 301

Call Stack:
    0.1084     334256   1. {main}() C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pea
    0.1093     328760   2. require_once('phar://C:/wamp/bin/php/php
.phar/index.php') C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar:1236
    0.2550    1977136   3. PEAR_Start_CLI->run() phar://C:/wamp/bin
/go-pear.phar/index.php:7
   28.1505    1989104   4. PEAR_Start->doInstall() phar://C:/wamp/b
.3/go-pear.phar/PEAR/Start/CLI.php:57

What do I do?

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I just opened the go-pear.phar in a text editor to examine its contents and found some garbage after the closing '?>' looking like this ",!îÄ;Ç>;vð‡á·¾‡($
yLGBMB". I deleted the line and tried executing again.
Now I get this error

manifest cannot be larger than 100 MB in phar "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.
phar"PHP Warning:  require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open s
tream: manifest cannot be larger than 100 MB in phar "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\g
o-pear.phar" in C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar on line 1236
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar:0

Warning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: man
ifest cannot be larger than 100 MB in phar "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.pha
r" in C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar on line 1236

Call Stack:
    0.0369     305960   1. {main}() C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\go-pear.phar:0

I hope I'm still ontrack?

 

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After much troubleshooting, I stumbled upon this site blog.0x89b.org and realised that I only needed to change the C:\Windows\pear.ini to $prefix\pear.ini ....
....and it all worked.

Thanks all