PEAR on my Ubuntu 9.10 setup doesn't actually install anything
bergie posted to #PHP Helsinki, Finland 02.11.2009 (en)
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After quite a lot of debugging, it appears PHP on Ubuntu doesn't include zlib functions. And PEAR Archive_Tar silently fails if this is the case.
bergie commented on posted to #PHP Helsinki, Finland 02.11.2009 (en)
Ubuntu bug about missing zlib, PEAR bug about Archive_Tar error reporting