Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1330542
This problem has lingered for a year.
Same problem presents in all PHP versions from Tahr to Vivid.
net4-dev# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 15.04
Release:15.04
Codename: vivid
net4-dev# pear install Archive_Tar
Warning:
After investing hours trying all sorts of suggestions that worked for
others... None worked for me...
This is what did work...
1) net1# pecl upgrade
pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocol - This should never happen.
Error still occurring...
2) pear upgrade
... snip ...