Installing PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
Quick post to consolidate information around the net. Installing this package is not as straight forward as most, as it’s in the beta channel.
Failed to download pear/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 0.9.1, stability "beta", use "channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.1" to install Cannot initialize 'channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer', invalid or missing package file Package "channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer" is not valid install failed
Behold:
pear config-set preferred_state beta sudo pear install ---onlyreqdeps Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
Include the onlyreqdeps switch so that the dependency package PEAR OLE is installed.


