Installing Pear Packages from Cpanel

[charlesh]

I need to install quickform2 for a client site and when I go to install it, I get a message saying that it is dependent upon html_common package. I went to install common2, the php5 version of that, and it gives me the following in the cpanel output window:

Warning: popen() has been disabled for security reasons in Guess.php on line 247PHP 
Warning:  popen() has been disabled for security reasons 
in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 247Warning: popen() has been disabled for 
security reasons in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 247Warning: fgets(): supplied
 argument is not a valid stream resource in Guess.php on line 248PHP Warning:  fgets(): 
supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on 
line 248Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource 
in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 248Warning: pclose(): supplied argument is not 
a valid stream resource in Guess.php on line 256PHP Warning:  pclose(): supplied 
argument is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 
256Warning: pclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource 
in /usr/local/lib/php/OS/Guess.php on line 256pear/HTML_Common2 requires PHP (version 
>= 5.1.4), installed version is 4.4.7No valid packages foundinstall 
failed/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin

I guess that I could
manually install it, but figured I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone have any sucess with installing Pear packages from Cpanel?Thanks,
charlesh

[Matt]

Are you doing this from a specific user's cPanel or from WHM or the CLI?

[charlesh]

Matt,

Thanks for the quick reply. I first tried it logged in as root from WHM to the user's control panel, then next I tried it as the user logged into the control Panel. Both had the same result.

Thanks,
Charles

[Matt]

The problem is both of those libs are in beta right now and cannot be installed on a shared server. VPS or dedicated perhaps but it would be at your own risk. Sorry.

[charlesh]

Hmmm. OK. It will be this year, hopefully that I'll go dedicated or VPS. I just wanted the php5 versions, but the old one should work just fine with what I'm doing.

Thanks again,
CharlesH