Pear won't uninstall

Question

Recently I successfully uninstalled pear using the following command:

$ sudo pear uninstall pear

So I recently reinstalled it, but I botched the installation and I want to start over (once again). This time, when I run the above command, pear gives me this message:

pear/pear not installed

Any suggestions?

Voted to move to http://www.serverfault.com – DaveRandom Dec 01 '11 at 21:16 — DaveRandom, Dec 01 '11 at 21:16

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '11 at 21:15

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PEAR is just a bunch of php scripts. To uninstall it manually just remove /usr/share/php/PEAR (the path can vary on distribs)

answered Dec 01 '11 at 21:15

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Good point. I found the directories I needed to remove, and also needed to remove `/etc/.pearrc` (in case anybody else is wondering). Thanks. – fronzee Dec 01 '11 at 21:21

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 21:18

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Refer to the correct way to install and uninstall pear:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php

answered Dec 01 '11 at 21:18

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Thanks but I've checked the docs and it doesn't say anything about uninstalling. – fronzee Dec 01 '11 at 21:20
Right on that page it tells you how to install Pear using wget and php... it takes two minutes. – Dec 01 '11 at 21:31
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@MatthewRMiller Yes, but I am not trying to install it at this point, I am trying to uninstall it. Which I did. (I just manually deleted the directories per zerkms's suggestion.) – fronzee Dec 01 '11 at 21:43

Pear won't uninstall

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