"not a valid package archive" when trying to install PHP extension?

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                          I'm running CENTOS 6.6 on a VPS and am trying to install the ZMQ PHP extension  and tried installing using the command shown in the instructions:

    sudo pecl install zmq-beta

However, it fails, showing this as the output:

    root@host [/zmq]#  sudo pecl install zmq-beta
    downloading zmq-1.1.2.tgz ...
    Starting to download zmq-1.1.2.tgz (39,573 bytes)
    ..........done: 39,573 bytes
    could not extract the package.xml file from "/root/tmp/pear/cache/zmq-1.1.2.tgz"
    Download of "pecl/zmq" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
    Error: cannot download "pecl/zmq"
    Download failed
    install failed

I also tried:

    sudo pecl install -Z zmq-beta

And:

    sudo pecl install --nocompress zmq-beta

But I get the same error.

Why is this error occuring?

                        

Asked by Nate (241 rep)

Jan 31, 2015, 09:45 PM
Last activity: Aug 4, 2025, 10:01 AM

"not a valid package archive" when trying to install PHP extension?

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