PEAR is a popular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.

Check if you have it

pear version

If not, move into:

cd /usr/local

Get it

curl -O  http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar

if you are denied permission try it with sudo

sudo curl -O  http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar

Install It

sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

Click yes a couple of times during the install

Add PEAR to your PATH

cd 
vi .bashrc
//or
vi .bash_profile
//Add to your PATH variable:
// ->/Users/USERNAME/pear/bin
export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:/Users/USERNAME/pear/bin:$PATH"

Refresh

source .bash_profile

Verify

> pear version
// Output should be
> PEAR Version: 1.9.4
  PHP Version: 5.4.17
  Zend Engine Version: 2.4.0
  Running on: Darwin admins-MacBook.local 13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

That’s PEAR installed and ready.

pear upgrade pear

pear upgrade