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First off, I have never used Pear before, I'm a complete newbie, but I need to mix php and excel so... I ran

sudo apt-get install pear

and that went smoothly, but I can't get any further. I tried to install the Spreadsheet Excel Writer like this

sudo pear install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.3

but was promptly told

Failed to download pear/OLE within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 1.0.0RC2, stability "beta", use "channel://pear.php.net/OLE-1.0.0RC2" to install pear/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer requires package "pear/OLE" (version >= 0.5) No valid packages found install failed

I upgraded it but it didn't change anything. I don't know how to get it to use a different channel and I can't find a way to install the package "pear/OLE". Please help! Thanks

Jessica Chambers
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    Basically, the last version Ubuntu has in their repos is too old to use it, so you'll probably need to update the package by yourself. Please see this question, might give you tips on how to do it: http://superuser.com/questions/55055/how-to-install-an-updated-version-of-pear-phpunit-on-ubuntu – nKn Jun 09 '16 at 08:13

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Firstly, you have to install OLE-1.0.0RC2 sudo pear install OLE-1.0.0RC2

You can install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer from scratch by

git clone https://github.com/pear/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.git

cd Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

pear install package.xml

More details github

thangdc94
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