Today I’m going to outline some important commands related to PEAR.
These commands are nothing new which you can’t find online or in PEAR site but these are something which I need every time to get things done on my workstation for any new extension.

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Here are some important commands

Check which channels are setup on your PEAR installation

pear list-channels

Consider a channel to look for packages in current session.(add or use this channel)

pear channel-discover pear.phpdoc.org

Check available packages in a channel.

pear remote-list -c pear.phpdoc.org

Install phpDocumentor2 package

pear install phpdoc/phpDocumentor-alpha

List all installed packages in a channel

pear list -c pear.phpdoc.org

List all available packages in a channel

pear list-all

Get information of files which are installed through a package

pear list-files phpDocumentor-2.0.0b4

Clear cache (I often use it when I get errors during installations)

pear clear-cache

Uninstall a package (mention complete package name otherwise it throws errors regarding package not available)

pear uninstall phpDocumentor-2.0.0b4