After upgrading to OSX 10.7, I discovered that both PEAR and PECL had gone. After some considerable searching online Ruggero De Pellegrini on Google+, so I’m putting it here for anyone who needs it (including myself when I get a new mac).

  • Download the installer
curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar > go-pear.php
  • Start the installation
sudo sudo php -q go-pear.php
  • Press 1 and “installation base ($prefix)” and change it to /usr/local
  • Press enter and continue.

Copy the default php.ini file

sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
  • In /etc/php.ini change the include_path = ".:/usr/local/share/pear"

Type pecl or pear in Terminal.app and see if it works.