installing pear package gives "could not download" message

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I am setting up a Ubuntu (the problem also happens on Debian Squeeze) Virtual Private Server. I have installed php5 and php-pear. When I go to install a pear package from the command, or if I attempt to upgrade packages, for example

# sudo pear upgrade-all

pear always gets a "could not download" message. The command above gave:

Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/Structures_Graph-1.0.4.tgz", cannot download

"pear/structures_graph" (File http://pear.php.net:80/get/Structures_Graph-1.0.4.tgz not valid (redirected but no location)) Error: cannot download "pear/Structures_Graph"

I tried purge php-pear and reinstalling. I tried Debian instead of Ubuntu, but got the same message.

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1 Answers

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Could it be that you're behind a proxy?

Try to find out what's happening:

 $ curl -I  http://pear.php.net:80/get/Structures_Graph-1.0.4.tgz
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ...

The error you got indicates that you don't get a "200 OK" but something different, which is probably injected by your firewall, proxy or so. Fix that.