title: Can't install PHPUnit via PEAR, requires PEAR Installer >= 1.9.2, can't upgrade PEAR from 1.9.0
body: <p>I read the other PHPUnit installation questions but haven't had any success. What is going on with my PEAR install?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ sudo pear update-channels
  Updating channel "components.ez.no"
  Channel "components.ez.no" is up to date
  Updating channel "doc.php.net"
  Channel "doc.php.net" is up to date
  Updating channel "pear.php.net"
  Channel "pear.php.net" is up to date
  Updating channel "pear.phpunit.de"
  Channel "pear.phpunit.de" is up to date
  Updating channel "pear.symfony-project.com"
  Channel "pear.symfony-project.com" is up to date
  Updating channel "pecl.php.net"
  Channel "pecl.php.net" is up to date
  $ sudo pear upgrade pear
  Nothing to upgrade
  $ sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
  phpunit/PHPUnit requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.2), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use PHP extension "dbus"
  phpunit/DbUnit requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.2), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/File_Iterator requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.2), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.1), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage requires package "phpunit/File_Iterator" (version &gt;= 1.2.2)
  phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage can optionally use PHP extension "xdebug" (version &gt;= 2.0.5)
  phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.2), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.2), installed version is 1.9.0
  phpunit/PHP_TokenStream requires PEAR Installer (version &gt;= 1.9.1), installed version is 1.9.0
  No valid packages found
  install failed
  $ pear list
  Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
  =========================================
  Package          Version  State
  Archive_Tar      1.3.7    stable
  Cache_Lite       1.7.11   stable
  Console_Getopt   1.3.1    stable
  HTTP_Request2    2.0.0RC1 beta
  Net_URL2         0.3.1    beta
  PEAR             1.9.3    stable
  Structures_Graph 1.0.4    stable
  XML_RPC2         1.1.1    stable
  XML_Util         1.2.1    stable
  greg@ubuntu:~$ pear -V
  PEAR Version: 1.9.0
  PHP Version: 5.3.6
  Zend Engine Version: 2.3.0
  Running on: Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-32-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 22:10:33 UTC 2011 i686
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>pear list</code> reports 1.9.3 installed, <code>pear -V</code> reports 1.9.0!?!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong> Tried KingCrunch suggestion.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ sudo pear install -f pear
  [sudo] password for greg: 
  downloading PEAR-1.9.3.tgz ...
  Starting to download PEAR-1.9.3.tgz (295,774 bytes)
  ...........................done: 295,774 bytes
  install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.9.3
  PEAR: Optional feature webinstaller available (PEAR's web-based installer)
  PEAR: Optional feature gtkinstaller available (PEAR's PHP-GTK-based installer)
  PEAR: Optional feature gtk2installer available (PEAR's PHP-GTK2-based installer)
  PEAR: To install optional features use "pear install pear/PEAR#featurename"
  $ pear -V
  PEAR Version: 1.9.0
  PHP Version: 5.3.6
  Zend Engine Version: 2.3.0
  Running on: Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-32-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 22:10:33 UTC 2011 i686
  </code></pre>