[CentOS] What is/provides php-pear(PEAR)

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:10 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I am running up against a less than helpful error message when trying to
> install php-pear-DB (why people cannot content themselves with all
> lowercase packages names escapes me, but that is a rant for another time
> and place). After enableing centos-plus and adding includepkgs=php-pear-DB
> I get this:
> 
> # yum install php-pear-DB
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
> included packages only
> Finished
> Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
> Finished
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package php-pear-DB.noarch 0:1.7.6-6.el4.centos set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: php-pear(PEAR) for package: php-pear-DB
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: php-pear(PEAR) is needed by package php-pear-DB
> 
> # yum install php-pear(PEAR)
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 
> # yum install php-pear-PEAR
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
> included packages only
> Finished
> Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
> Finished
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: php-pear-PEAR
> Nothing to do
> 
> # yum whatprovides php-pear-PEAR
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
> included packages only
> Finished
> Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
> Finished
> Importing Additional filelist information for packages
> filelists.xml.gz          100% |=========================| 963 kB    00:18
> centosplus: ################################################## 286/286
> Added 286 new packages, deleted 0 old in 41.20 seconds
> No Matches found
> 
> So, what is php-pear(PEAR) and how do I get it installed?  Can anyone help?
> 
> Regards,
> Jim

you must either use \ to escape ( and ) (like this    php-pear\(PEAR\)

OR

use single quotes like this

'php-pear(PEAR)'

so

yum whatprovides 'php-pear(PEAR)'

AND

the answer is:

I do not see anything that provides that in my repos
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