我可以忽略Pear软件包安装的PHP版本要求

Question

I'm trying to install a couple of pear packages but have an issue with the version of PHP I'm running. Firstly I get:

sudo pear install phix/Autoloader
Failed to download phix/Autoloader, latest release is version 3.0.0, but it requires PHP version "5.3.0", use "channel://pear.phix-project.org/Autoloader-3.0.0" to install
Cannot initialize 'channel://pear.phix-project.org/Autoloader', invalid or missing package file
Package "channel://pear.phix-project.org/Autoloader" is not valid
install failed

I then try and install as follows:

sudo pear install channel://pear.phix-project.org/Autoloader-3.0.0
phix/Autoloader requires PHP (version >= 5.3.0), installed version is 5.2.6-1+lenny13
No valid packages found
install failed

Would I be correct in assuming the error is related to the version of PHP I'm running? If so, is there a way of getting the pear install to ignore the PHP version requirements?

Thanks

Answer 1

Even if you bring PEAR to ignore the version, you cannot use the packages, because the requirements are not fulfilled. There are really good reasons, why the package maintainers set the requirements. Thus: No, you can't.

Answer 2

Please take a look into

pear help install

This should list you all available options. As written in my comment above, I don't think it makes sense, but you can just try harder to make pear installing the package anyway. The package then might just not work in the end, but well, that are "just" requirements you'd like to ignore anyway, so go ahead ;)