[FIXED] Trying to install PEAR extension with composer

Issue

I'm converting an old project (with old dependencies) to manage it's dependencies using composer. The site uses PEAR's Text_Password. I read that it is possible to install dependencies with composer adding (something like) the following to composer.json:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "pear",
        "url": "http://pear.php.net"
    }
],
"require": {
    ...
    "pear-pear/Text_Password": "*"
},

..but I get the error:

$ composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Initializing PEAR repository http://pear.php.net
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - The requested package pear-pear/text_password could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.

Potential causes:
 - A typo in the package name
 - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
   see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.

Is it possible to install PEAR libraries with Composer? I notice on packagist there is a collection of PEAR libraries but I couldn't see Text_Password - https://packagist.org/packages/pear/

There is also a github repo for Text_Password but I thought maybe installing direct from PEAR was better? - https://github.com/pear/Text_Password

Anyway how can I install this package with composer?

Solution

Here you go:

{
    "type": "project",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "pear",
            "url": "http://pear.php.net"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "pear-pear.php.net/Text_Password": "*"
    }
}

Note: The PEAR repository has been removed from Composer 2.0

Answered By - Jens A. Koch