Amazon S3 instructions require the following PEAR packages:HMAC, HTTP_Request, Net_Socket, and Net_URL. After my problems with PEAR in SuSE 10.0, I want good notes of what I did here:

• All commands run as root.
• pear remote-list
  WARNING: channel “pear.php.net” has updated its protocols, use “channel-update pear.php.net” to update.
• pear update-channels – successful.
• pear info <pkg> – always responded “No information found for ‘pkg’. I tried both installed packages and the packages I wanted to install.
• pear remote-list – listed available packages and Net_Socket was not listed, even though I could see it on the PEAR web site.
• pear install HTTP_Request –
  install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Net_Socket-1.0.6
  install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Net_URL-1.0.14
  install ok: channel://pear.php.net/HTTP_Request-1.4.0
• pear info HTTP_Request – now it lists information about this package. Something isn’t working; I certainly should be able to get info about a package before installing.
• pear list –
  Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
Package Version State
Archive_Tar 1.3.1 stable
Console_Getopt 1.2 stable
Crypt_HMAC 1.0.1 stable
HTTP_Request 1.4.0 stable
Net_Socket 1.0.6 stable
Net_URL 1.0.14 stable
PEAR 1.4.11 stable
• This shows another problem. YaST offered a few PEAR packages at install time and I selected a few including PEAR::DB. The DB package appears in /usr/share/php5/PEAR along with Archive Tar and Console Getopt, yet is not listed above. Why not?
• pear run-tests -pr Crypt_HMAC – “running 0 tests”, even though HMAC has a test.php file under the test subdirectory. So I don’t understand this command either.