# Error in installing pear..pls help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-installing-pear-pls-help/274538
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-installing-pear-pls-help/274538 "2008-10-31T06:28:18Z")
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### Author: ![edryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@edryan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/edryan)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-installing-pear-pls-help/274538/1 "2008-10-31T06:28:18Z")

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Hi guyz,

Im trying to make a page that identifies a country base on an IP. I was trying to install pear for geo ip.

On my console, I browse on PHP folder and tried this line,  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]pear [COLOR=#c20cb9][COLOR=black]install[/COLOR][/COLOR] [http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net\_GeoIP[COLOR=black]-1.0[/COLOR].0RC1.tgz](http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1.tgz)[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Now, I got this error…[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Notice: Undefined variable: php\_errormsg in PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1498  
Could not download from “[/SIZE][/FONT][[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net\_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1[/SIZE][/FONT]](http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1)  
[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2].tgz”  
Invalid or missing remote package file  
Package “[/SIZE][/FONT][[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net\_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1.tgz[/SIZE][/FONT]](http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1.tgz)[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]” is not val  
id  
install failed[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Is there someone out there that could locate me where to install this Pear GeoIP?[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Or point me to any other resource of identifying a country through an IP…[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Tnx[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Regards,[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]  
[FONT=‘Times New Roman’][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Ed[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]