How to install an older version of PHPUnit through PEAR?

Question

I would like to downgrade my installation of PHPUnit 3.4 to 3.3. I\'m just not sure how to do it.

How do I install version 3.3 of PHPUnit on Ubuntu using PEAR?

Answer 1

Note that if you wish to downgrade from a 3.6.x release to 3.5.15 (final stable 3.x release), then you need to uninstall, then reinstall several dependencies manually. Otherwise pear will just force install the latest version of PHPUnit.

Here's how:

(Original instructions from Dusty Reagan's blog: http://dustyreagan.com/downgrade-phpunit-3-6-to-3-5-15/. duplicated to SO in case original link dies for some reason.)

First you need to uninstall PHPUnit 3.6 and all of it’s dependencies.

sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/DbUnit
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/File_Iterator
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/Text_Template
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHP_Timer
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium
sudo pear uninstall pear.symfony-project.com/YAML

Next install these specific versions of each dependency, in this order, installing PHPUnit-3.5.15 last.

sudo pear install pear.symfony-project.com/YAML-1.0.2
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium-1.0.1
sudo pear install phpunit/Text_Template-1.0.0
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject-1.0.3
sudo pear install phpunit/PHP_Timer-1.0.0
sudo pear install phpunit/File_Iterator-1.2.3
sudo pear install phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage-1.0.2
sudo pear install phpunit/DbUnit-1.0.0
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit-3.5.15

Note: You may need to add channel for PHP_CodeCoverage, which doesn't seem to be obligatory for PHPUnit 3.6

sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo pear install channel://components.ez.no/ConsoleTools-1.6