Some more information would be nice:

* Which PEAR version did you have installed when trying to upgrade?

* What's the output of "pear config-show"?

 - Stig

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 21:23, Michael Dransfield wrote:
>  downloading PEAR-1.0b1.tar ...
>  ...done: 371,200 bytes
>  failed to create \php\pear
>  
>  c:\php\pear already exists (is a directory)
>  
>  
>  
>  At 16:27 12/10/2002 +0200, Tal Peer wrote:
>  >PEAR Announce wrote:
>  >
>  >>The new PEAR package PEAR-1.0b1 (stable) has been released at 
>  >>http://pear.php.net/.
>  >>
>  >>Release notes
>  >>-------------
>  >>New Features, Installer:
>  >>* new command: "pear makerpm"
>  >>* new command: "pear search"
>  >>* new command: "pear upgrade-all"
>  >>* new command: "pear config-help"
>  >>* new command: "pear sign"
>  >>* Windows support for "pear build" (requires
>  >>  msdev)
>  >>* new dependency type: "zend"
>  >>* XML-RPC results may now be cached (see
>  >>  cache_dir and cache_ttl config)
>  >>* HTTP proxy authorization support
>  >>* install/upgrade install-root support
>  >>
>  >>Bugfixes, Installer:
>  >>* fix for XML-RPC bug that made some remote
>  >>  commands fail
>  >>* fix problems under Windows with
>  >>  DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
>  >>* lots of other minor fixes
>  >>* --force option did not work for "pear install
>  >>  Package"
>  >>* http downloader used "4.2.1" rather than
>  >>  "PHP/4.2.1" as user agent
>  >>* bending over a little more to figure out how
>  >>  PHP is installed
>  >>* "platform" file attribute was not included
>  >>  during "pear package"
>  >>
>  >>New Features, PEAR Library:
>  >>* added PEAR::loadExtension($ext)
>  >>* added PEAR::delExpect()
>  >>* System::mkTemp() now cleans up at shutdown
>  >>* defined PEAR_ZE2 constant (boolean)
>  >>* added PEAR::throwError() with a simpler API
>  >>  than raiseError()
>  >>
>  >>Bugfixes, PEAR Library:
>  >>* ZE2 compatibility fixes
>  >>* use getenv() as fallback for $_ENV
>  >>
>  >>Package Info
>  >>-------------
>  >>The PEAR package contains:
>  >>* the PEAR base class
>  >>* the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism
>  >>* the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing
>  >>   and installing packages
>  >>
>  >>Related Links
>  >>-------------
>  >>Package home: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=PEAR
>  >>   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=PEAR
>  >>    Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.0b1.tgz
>  >>
>  >>Authors
>  >>-------------
>  >>Stig Bakken <ssb@[...].no> (lead)
>  >>Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@[...].com> (developer)
>  >>Martin Jansen <mj@[...].net> (helper)
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >hohohoho
>  >
>  >[tal@kaktos tal]$ pear upgrade PEAR
>  >downloading PEAR-1.0b1.tar ...
>  >...done: 371,200 bytes
>  >upgrade to a newer version (1.0b1 is not newer than 1.0RC1)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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