Phing is a tool to automating repeatable tasks, it is easy to configure and easy to use. Installing phing should just be easy with these two commands from the console:

pear channel-discover pear.phing.info

pear install phing/phing

Unknown Hosts

I got some unknown hosts on my first install.

Unknown remote channel: pear.pdepend.org
Unknown remote channel: pear.phpmd.org
Unknown remote channel: pear.docblox-project.org

pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
pear channel-discover pear.phpmd.org
pear channel-discover pear.docblox-project.org

Warning

With all this up I tried the install again but go the following warning, and a long message to failed the install.

Upgrade the pear files

pear upgrade-all

Or do it with all dependencies:

pear upgrade --alldeps

Once pear has been updated the install works

pear install phing/phing

Test

Once that is done just check it is all good:

phing -v