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