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- These instructions are intended specifically for installing or uninstalling PECL Extensions.
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PECL, or the PHP Extension Community Library, is a repository for PHP extensions. There are many, many PECL extensions including, but not limited to: 1. database extensions, such as mongo, and 2. networking extensions, such as geoip.
The general command is pecl install extension. As an example, to install the PECL extension for perl:
pecl install perl
The general command is pecl uninstall extension; to uninstall the PECL extension for perl:
pecl uninstall perl