Midgard 1.8alpha2 and PEAR

I am trying to install somehow Midgard CVS HEAD with pearized MidCOM.

At the beginning I was surprised that no pear packages is installed , so I changed a bit my local datagard script , to force it to exit before asking about Virtual Hosts. As the initial setup is quite fast now I created another one database so I was able to see what happens with pear packages.

Installing PEAR packages...

downloading PEAR-1.4.7.tgz ...

Starting to download PEAR-1.4.7.tgz (280,249 bytes)

............done: 280,249 bytes

requires package `Archive_Tar' >= 1.3.1

PEAR: Dependencies failed

OK, that's not nice , but pear could handle this somehow.
And next line:

Command 'pear.midcom-project.org' is not valid, try 'pear help'

What? The command was:

pear channel-discover pear.midcom-project.org

Let's try help:

pear help channel-discover

Command 'channel-discover' is not valid, try 'pear help'

OK, let's try to look for it:

grep -re channel /usr/share/php/* 

No results.

I am using debian and that means that I may have php4 and php5 installed , and if you consider the fact that pear script looks for php command which is a link to php5 by default, you may notice some not nice surprise with great segfault caused by using php5 cli with midgard php extension builded for php4.

Currently I have no idea how to solve all these problems.

updated: I tested it also with PEAR 1.4.6 , but with no luck