PHP PEAR install error
I encountered this error while installing PHP. It took me a while to determine the cause: an existing /tmp/pear directory not writable by me. Removing the directory or changing permissions on it fixes the problem.

Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/lib/php/
could not extract the package.xml file from "phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/Archive_Tar-1.3.1.tar"
[PEAR] Archive_Tar: Cannot initialize 'phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/Archive_Tar-1.3.1.tar', invalid or missing package file
could not extract the package.xml file from "phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/Console_Getopt-1.2.tar"
[PEAR] Console_Getopt: Cannot initialize 'phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/Console_Getopt-1.2.tar', invalid or missing package file
could not extract the package.xml file from "phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/PEAR-1.4.11.tar"
[PEAR] PEAR: Cannot initialize 'phar://install-pear-nozlib.phar/PEAR-1.4.11.tar', invalid or missing package file
Installing PDO headers:          /usr/local/include/php/ext/pdo/

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