Sébastien Barbieri's blog

and you get some wonderful error message such as: Notice: Undefined variable: dorest in PEAR/Command/Install.php on line 1220 Sometimes it happens… Solution: locate the .channels/ directory For ubuntu with Zend-CE 5.2 it’s in /usr/local/zend/share/pear/.channels/ And delete everything in there sudo rm /usr/local/zend/share/pear/.channels/* then do a fresh pear update-channels to reconstruct the serialized cache file in [...]