Hi Paul I tried the instructions in the distrbution, but the 'make' command failed. I'll be poring over this: http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/make/make_toc.html & the man pages for a while. Does pear run well from /opt/local? I am trying to build a *AMP stack. (DAMP for Darwin?) It just looks like less re-configuring if it runs from the same directory as php. paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote: On Feb 10, 2008 8:39 PM, Eric Soli <eric_soli@yahoo.com> wrote: I am attempting to install pear-base into /usr/bin instead of /opt/local/bin. My best understanding from the man page is that I should use: bash$ sudo port -D /usr/bin install pear-base but it still ends up in /opt/local. Is there a way plant this pear tree next to /usr/bin/php? You don't say why you want to do this or why the source tarball/distribution doesn't work for you. It looks, from reading the INSTALL file, that it is best installed by and within the php process. Unix ==== make sure you have enabled default extensions, and if you want faster downloads, enable the zlib extension. You must also enable the CLI SAPI with the --enable-cli extension directive. After this, simply run: make install-pear and PEAR will be automatically configured for you. go-pear ======= For users who cannot perform the above steps, or who wish to obtain the latest PEAR with a slightly higher risk of failure, use go-pear. go-pear is obtained by downloading http://go-pear.org and saving it as go-pear.php. After downloading, simply run "php go-pear.php" or open it in a web browser (windows only) to download and install PEAR. Seems like you could use the system php to perform the second operation. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@gmail.com> --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.