Package upgrade detects wrong Installer version

[anty]

I want to install the package Mail_Mime, but I always get this error message on "pear upgrade Mail_Mime" or "pear install Mail_Mime":

[mark]

That's strange. Did you try "-f" also for the Mail_mime installation or only for PEAR?

[anty]

I tried it for both and several times.

[mark]

What does "pear -V" show you?

I'm not sure, but maybe "pear clear-cache" might help.

[anty]

Thank you mark for showing me that there is a "pear -V" command.
This way I could fix my problem.

The reason why it didn't work was a bad configured PHP-path.

I was using PHP5 as a CGI version, but pear still used the PHP4 path.
I don't know why, but changing the paths to the PHP5 version worked.

In case someone has the same problems, this is what I did in detail:

• pear config-set php_bin /home/username/php5/bin/php
  
• export PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=/home/username/php5/bin/php
  
• export PATH=/home/username/pear/:/home/username/php5/bin:$PATH
  

Finally I could upgrade PEAR and Mail_Mime to the latest version.

My host is dreamhost... maybe the PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN does only work for that host?

Thanks again mark
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[jbwtucker]

I also use DreamHost, and I've been having the exact same problem. Trying to install Mail_Mime, getting the exact same 3 error messages.

When I do "pear -V" I see that the current pear version is 1.5.0 and the current PHP version is 4.4.9.

I did the 3 things you listed, exactly as you listed them. But nothing has changed.

You said that after those three things, you were able to upgrade Pear and Mail_Mime. How did you do that? I'm a bit of a shell noob, and when I try to upgrade pear, it tells me I've got the latest version. But "pear -V" still shows version 1.5.0.

Any help?