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Adding Other PEAR Packages

With PEAR properly installed on your system, you are able to install additional packages from the command line by using one of the commands in Table E-2, where package is the name of a PEAR package, as listed at the web page http://pear.php.net/packages.php.

Table E-2. Installing PEAR packages on different systems

System	Command
Windows	"C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 3.0\php\pear" install package
Mac OS X	/Applications/MAMP/bin/pear install package
Linux Unix	pear install package

To determine which packages are installed, replace install package in Table E-2 with the word list and the output should be similar to the following:

INSTALLED PACKAGES, CHANNEL PEAR.PHP.NET:
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PACKAGE            VERSION STATE
Archive_Tar        1.3.2   stable
Console_Getopt     1.2.3   stable
MDB2               2.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_mysql  1.4.1   stable
PEAR               1.7.2   stable
Structures_Graph   1.0.2   stable