When you attempt to install the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer and get this error:
Failed to download pear/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 0.9.1, stability “beta”, use “channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.1? to install
Cannot initialize ‘channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer’, invalid or missing package file
Package “channel://pear.php.net/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer” is not valid
install failed
do the following commands:
pear config-set preferred_state beta
pear install —onlyreqdeps Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
Include the onlyreqdeps switch so that the dependency package PEAR OLE is installed
Hope that will help!