I needing to setup a staging environment that more or less emulates the platform of your deployment system, i needed to setup a LAMP stack with PHPUnit for testing on the target platform.

Using CentOS and help from my good friend Cordoval (you can check out his cutting edge blog at http://www.craftitonline.com) we setup using Apache, PHP and MySQL.

We used the yum package manager to get things up and running:

First we needed to setup php :

$ yum install php

$ yum install php-dom

and mysql:

$ yum install mysql

$ yum install mysql-server

$ yum install mysql-devel

$ chgrp -R mysql /var/lib/mysql

$ chmod -R 770 /var/lib/mysql

$ service mysqld start

With that done, we needed to then setup PEAR:

$ yum install php-pear

Then i followed the guides found here: (http://ulaptech.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/install-phpunit-in-rhel-centos-or.html)

I will copy the instructions but all credit goes to the link above:

1. Make sure that you’re PEAR is version 1.9.2 or above. 

$ pear upgrade pear

2. Discover all channels required.

$ pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de

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

$ pear channel-discover components.ez.no

3. Install PHPUnit with all the dependencies

$ pear install --force --alldeps channel://pear.php.net/HTTP_Request2-2.0.0RC1

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optional, at the time of writing this is beta so I had to force install it

$ pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

4. Done. Test PHPUNIT.

$ phpunit