Since completing MidCOM’s PEAR 1.4 packaging the main remaining issue of making MidCOM installation user-friendly has been setting up a channel. This is now done, and MidCOM 2.5 can be installed in the following way:

• Upgrade PEAR to 1.4

    # pear -f upgrade PEAR
  

• Discover the PEAR channel

    # pear channel-discover pear.midcom-project.org
  

• Install the MgdSchema handler role

    # pear install midcom/Role_Mgdschema
  

• Install MidCOM core (you need to specify version as there is no
  stable 2.6 release yet)

    # pear install midcom/midcom-2.5.1cvs
  

After these you have MidCOM installed into your PEAR path. Next you will want to install some components. Here you can see how dependency handling works: I’m installing de.linkm.taviewer that requires the datamanager library.

# pear install midcom/de_linkm_taviewer
Starting to download de_linkm_taviewer-2.tgz (23,016 bytes)
........done: 23,016 bytes
downloading midcom_helper_datamanager-1.tgz ...
Starting to download midcom_helper_datamanager-1.tgz (85,651 bytes)
...done: 85,651 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.midcom-project.org/midcom_helper_datamanager-1
install ok: channel://pear.midcom-project.org/de_linkm_taviewer-2

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