Trouble installing FirePHPCore on ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[billynoah]

I am working off a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and cannot install firephp due to error:

#pear install firephp/FirePHPCore

downloading FirePHPCore-0.3.2.tgz ...
Starting to download FirePHPCore-0.3.2.tgz (25,019 bytes)
.........done: 25,019 bytes
could not extract the package.xml file from "/build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/pear-build-download/FirePHPCore-0.3.2.tgz"
Download of "firephp/FirePHPCore" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download "firephp/FirePHPCore"
Download failed
install failed

I've installed this on several other servers in the same fashion with no problems but they were all running Ubuntu 12 or earlier.

[cadorn]

PEAR is slowly dying. I would try and install FirePHP using composer: https://packagist.org/packages/firephp/firephp-core

[cadorn]

The pear release channel is no longer supported. Please use ** composer**.