I am on a Ubuntu 11.10 and trying to upgrade from 1.9.2 to 1.9.4, but it simply don't work. Here are the commands I am following in sequence $ sudo apt-get install php-pear Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done php-pear is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic-pae libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. $ sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net Updating channel "pear.php.net" Channel "pear.php.net" is up to date $ sudo pear upgrade-all Nothing to upgrade-all $ sudo pear install –alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit parsePackageName(): invalid package name "–alldeps" in "–alldeps" invalid package name/package file "–alldeps" Did not download optional dependencies: phpunit/PHP_Invoker, use --alldeps to download automatically phpunit/PHPUnit requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.4), installed version is 1.9.2 phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use package "phpunit/PHP_Invoker" (version >= 1.1.0) phpunit/Text_Template requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.4), installed version is 1.9.2 phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.4), installed version is 1.9.2 phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage requires package "phpunit/Text_Template" (version >= 1.1.1) phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage can optionally use PHP extension "xdebug" (version >= 2.0.5) phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.4), installed version is 1.9.2 phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject requires package "phpunit/Text_Template" (version >= 1.1.1) phpunit/PHP_TokenStream requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.9.4), installed version is 1.9.2 No valid packages found install failed Any thoughts?