December 20, 2012

Call to undefined method PHP_CodeCoverage_Filter::getInstance()

Question by beanland

I’ve got a fresh copy of PHPUnit installed on my system (Ubuntu 11), but whenever I type phpunit in the console I get the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method PHP_CodeCoverage_Filter::getInstance() in /usr/bin/phpunit on line 39

I have PHPUnit’s code coverage installed, as far as I know:

>sudo pear install phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage

phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage is already installed and is the same as the released version 1.1.1

install failed

Why am I getting this error and how can I fix it?

Answer by David Harkness

The executable script that loads PHPUnit must not have been updated when going to 3.6.x. Reinstall it.

sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit

If this doesn’t work, make sure PEAR itself is up-to-date.

Answer by Starx

For some, Anthony’s solution will not work fully because of the Unknown remote channel: pear.symfony.com or phpunit/PHPUnit requires package "channel://pear.symfony.com/Yaml".

SO here is the upgraded solution that solves this:

sudo apt-get remove phpunit

sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com

sudo pear update-channels

sudo pear upgrade-all

sudo pear install pear.symfony.com/Yaml

sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

sudo pear install --force --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit
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