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I used Pear to install PHP CodeSniffer, and something went terribly wrong. It seems like most of the files weren't copied over. Perhaps I should have installed it with root privileges. It doesn't work, it's a mess, and I want to uninstall it and reinstall it, but I don't know how to uninstall it and I can't find any information about this. The Pear script is long and complicated. I tried:

pear uninstall PHP_CodeSniffer-3.2.3

It says that it's not installed.

But when I try to reinstall over the existing installation, it says I can't because it's already installed.

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    Does "-2" mean this is a stupid question? If so, please tell me the answer while you're passing by to click the Down arrow. Thanks. – permutations Apr 14 '18 at 10:57
  • The installation script is 178 pages long. Literally. Can't someone please tell me how to manually install and uninstall this thing? It can't truly take 178 pages. Thank you. – permutations Apr 14 '18 at 14:45

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I found the answer. I'm posting it despite the -1 score I got for my question - up from -2. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had this problem, and it took hours of searching to find the solution. I'm not a pear expert. I only just installed it to use PHP_CodeSniffer.

The pear uninstall command didn't work because the cache needed to be cleared. These commands worked, when logged in as root. I then reinstalled as root.

pear clear-cache
pear uninstall PHP_CodeSniffer
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