Ok, I think I have nailed this down, it looks like a patch was drooped that debian carried:
With the patch applied I get the following: ch...@cartman:~/work/server/bugs/main/karmic/php/ppa$ !568 php -r "var_dump(function_exists("gzopen"));" bool(true) And for pear I get the following now: h...@cartman:~/work/server/bugs/main/karmic/php/ppa$ sudo pear install Auth WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" WARNING: "pear/MDB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" Did not download optional dependencies: pear/Log, pear/File_Passwd, pear/Net_POP3, pear/DB, pear/MDB, pear/MDB2, pear/Auth_RADIUS, pear/Crypt_CHAP, pear/File_SMBPasswd, pear/HTTP_Client, pear/SOAP, pear/Net_Vpopmaild, pecl/vpopmail, pecl/kadm5, use --alldeps to download automatically pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/Log" (version >= 1.9.10) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/File_Passwd" (version >= 1.1.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/Net_POP3" (version >= 1.3.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/DB" (version >= 1.6.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/MDB" pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/MDB2" (version >= 2.0.0RC1) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/Auth_RADIUS" pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/Crypt_CHAP" (version >= 1.0.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/File_SMBPasswd" (version >= 1.0.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/HTTP_Client" (version >= 1.1.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/SOAP" (version >= 0.9.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pear/Net_Vpopmaild" (version >= 0.1.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pecl/vpopmail" (version >= 0.2) pear/Auth can optionally use package "pecl/kadm5" (version >= 0.2.3) pear/Auth can optionally use PHP extension "imap" pear/Auth can optionally use PHP extension "saprfc" downloading Auth-1.6.2.tgz ... Starting to download Auth-1.6.2.tgz (56,036 bytes) .............done: 56,036 bytes install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Auth-1.6.2 -- PHP 5.2.10 zlib bug remains for 32bit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451314 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs