Installation

Install Using PEAR

Ethna can be installed using pear command. It is the simplest and recommended. Note that you need to have pear installed on your system.

Only for the first time, you need to register a channel for Ethna using channel-discover as:

Warning

If your pear version is old, then it channel-discover will get to discover. Therefore, please run

pear upgrade pear
$ pear channel-discover pear.ethna.jp

Once the channel of Ethna is discovered, you are ready to install Ethna

$ pear install -a ethna/ethna

From this command, the dependent library Smarty and simpletest will be installed at the same time. If you don’t want to install them together then just ommit the option -a.

Once the installation is finished, verify ethna, using the following command.

$ ethna -v
Ethna 2.6.0 (using PHP 5.3.6-6~dotdeb.1)

Copyright (c) 2004-2011,
Masaki Fujimoto <fujimoto@php.net>
halt feits <halt.feits@gmail.com>
Takuya Ookubo <sfio@sakura.ai.to>
nozzzzz <nozzzzz@gmail.com>
cocoitiban <cocoiti@comio.info>
Yoshinari Takaoka <takaoka@beatcraft.com>
Sotaro Karasawa <sotaro.k@gmail.com>

http://ethna.jp/

Note

The stable Version 2.5.0 will be installed. Ethna 2.6.0 is currently in beta. If you wish to install the beta then choose the following command.

$ pear install ethna/ethna-beta

Update Ethna using PEAR

To update ethna, you may run the following

$ pear upgrade ethna/ethna

It is also possible to upgrade via downloading the package using wget.

$ wget -O Ethna-2.6.x.tar.gz  https://github.com/ethna/ethna/tarball/2.6.x
$ pear upgrade Ethna-2.x.y.tgz