run this command at the linux shell prompt to find out what version you have installed in your server:
Code:pear list
Once you have executed the command you will see someting that looks like this, if you dont, then you dont have pear installed:
Code:Installed packages
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Package Version stable
Archive_Tar 1.1 stable
Console_Getopt 1.2 stable
DB 1.7.6 stable
HTML_Template_IT 1.1 stable
HTTP 1.3.6 stable
Mail 1.1.8 stable
Net_SMTP 1.2.7 stable
Net_Socket 1.0.6 stable
Net_UserAgent_Detect 2.0.1 stable
PEAR 1.3.6 stable
XML_Parser 1.2.6 stable
XML_RPC 1.4.1 stable
In my example, I have PEAR Version 1.3.6 Installed in my server.