Problem when installing pear packages for php

Question

When trying to install pear packages I get the following error:

sudo pear install validate
[sudo] password for nicolas: 
PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method PEAR::raiseErro() in /usr/share/php/PEAR/REST.php on line 165

This PEAR::raiseErro() seems to be the problem.

Answer 1

It was a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/774452. That page says it's fixed now (since 11 hours), so it should be fixed in the next update of the php-pear package. The bug report also has a pointer to the related bug report in Debian, which points to the upstream diff.