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Hi, as stated in title above I cannot install xdebug on mac using pecl, this is the error message I get
pecl install xdebug
downloading xdebug-2.6.1.tgz ...
Starting to download xdebug-2.6.1.tgz (283,961 bytes)
..........................................................done: 283,961 bytes
Warning: require_once(Archive/Tar.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in PackageFile.php on line 304
PHP Warning: require_once(Archive/Tar.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear/PEAR/PackageFile.php on line 304
Warning: require_once(Archive/Tar.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear/PEAR/PackageFile.php on line 304
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'Archive/Tar.php' (include_path='/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear:/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear:/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear') in /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear/PEAR/PackageFile.php on line 304
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'Archive/Tar.php' (include_path='/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear:/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear:/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear') in /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear/PEAR/PackageFile.php on line 304
Yeah, managed to solve it, I need to manually copy https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/blob/master/Archive/Tar.php into /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.2.14/share/[email protected]/pear/PEAR/Archive then run sudo pecl install xdebug. wola it work.
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