How do I correctly install PHPUnit with PEAR?

Question

I have had to de- and reinstall a newer version of PHPUnit following these directions. Now when I\'m launching this line

sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPU         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way to obtain PHPUnit in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or OpenSUSE is to download a PHP Archive (PHAR) that has all required (as well as some optional) dependencies of PHPUnit bundled in a single file.

Open the terminal and type:

wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar  # download the PHP Archive (PHAR) file  
chmod +x phpunit.phar   
sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit   

There are many different versions of phpunit.phar at https://phar.phpunit.de/. If you use the first command, it will select and download the latest version.

Note: The /usr/local/bin/ path in the last command is correct for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE distributions and also for other Linux distributions that have a /usr/local/bin/ directory.

_{Reference: What is /usr/local/bin? Came across it in an script installation for Applescript but would like to know more}