Error: Unable to create XML parser while phpquery installing

[indapublic]

[root@default /]# pear channel-discover phpquery-pear.appspot.com
Error: Unable to create XML parser
Discovering channel phpquery-pear.appspot.com over http:// failed with message: channel-add: invalid channel.xml file
Trying to discover channel phpquery-pear.appspot.com over https:// instead
Error: Unable to create XML parser
Discovery of channel "phpquery-pear.appspot.com" failed (channel-add: invalid channel.xml file)

<?php
var_dump(xml_parser_create());
?>

outputs

resource(2, xml)

Latest Amazon Linux

cat /etc/issue

Amazon Linux AMI release 2014.03

[mrbinky3000]

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