PHPUnit error: No release available for package
Jun 10, 2011
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One of the steps to install PHPUnit is to execute the following pear commands:
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
However, after doing that, I got the following error: no release available for package pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit - and the install failed.
I decided to execute a remote-list command - it was a thought that maybe I could see if maybe my phpunit declaration was wrong - I was just grasping at straws…
pear remote-list -c phpunit
This finally gave me a worthwhile error!
The value of the config option cache_dir (/tmp/pear/cache) is not a directory and attempts to create the directory have failed
So, I finally was successful after the following two commands:
mkdir /tmp/pear/cache
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
Moral of the story: check to make sure PEAR has a cache directory available if you can’t install a PEAR package.