I recently tried to install the latest version of PHPUnit, and I ran into a bit of trouble. When I installed pear on SLE 10 (zypper install php5-pear), the installer version was too old to download and install PHPUnit. So, I had to upgrade the pear installer to the latest version before I could install PHPUnit. To do this, simply run ‘pear upgrade pear’ from the command line (or in a shell). After you do that, PHPUnit should install without problems.

To install PHPUnit will all dependencies, execute the following from the command line (or in a shell).

pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear channel-discover components.ez.no
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit