pear on debian

[xsintill]

i'm having trouble installing the pear package manager on debian. whenever i give the folowing command

lynx -source http://pear.php.net/go-pear | sh

the following text appears:

sh: ?php: No such file or directory

YOU NEED TO RUN THIS SCRIPT WITH PHP NOW!

Try this: lynx -source http://pear.php.net/go-pear | php -q

then i run the suggestion which was made and it gives back the following:

bash: php: command not found

i'm not sure of what i have to do to install the pear package manager.

TIA

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Do you have a command line version of php installed? If so, is that version in your path?

[xsintill]

i haven't installed the system myself.

how should php be configured to get a command line php ?

in the meantime i came a cross another way to get the packages... i thought the package manager was the only way to get things installed but luckily downloading from cvs and then putting the extracted files in the /usr/share/pear directory worked for me.

thanx for your help!