Getting PEAR to work on XAMPP (Apache/MySQL stack on Windows)

Question

I\'m trying to install Laconica, an open-source Microblogging application on my Windows development server using XAMPP as per the instructions provided.

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Answer 1

Another gotcha for this kind of problem: avoid running pear within a Unix shell (e.g., Git Bash or Cygwin) on a Windows machine. I had the same problem and the path fix suggested above didn't help. Switched over to a Windows shell, and the pear command works as expected.