Can You Remove the Need Of Pear?

Hi,
First let me say I am not a coder and my knowledge goes as far as a bit of html, uploading files and connecting to a database, but little else. However I have an issue relateting to PEAR.

I asked a programmer to design me a medium sized website, which he did and put live for me.

The idea was that I would always reuse that site for different subject matters. Ie, strip content, change logos etc, but the coding apart from the database names and linking would be the same.

I have done just that, uoloaded my existing site to a new server and domain and copied the database over, but now I am getting errors relating to not being able to find PEAR.

I find that the existing site uses PEAR, but the new current host, does not have it installed.

As the host I am using is dedicated, but has other websites on it, I am worried about trying to learn and then upload pear, as it may affect the other sites (tell me if I am wrong)

So
is it possible to change the site, so it is not dependant of PEAR, or is it a case of once designed in PEAR, it cannot be changed without a rewrite?

This is beyond my knowlege and removing the need, may make bring the site, back into line with my knowlege base.

At the moment i have a domain that does not have live a website, because of this, can you help?

pear is just a bunch of php scripts bundled together. if you wanted to take out pear, there would probably be a lot of pages that would need to be rewritten to not use pear. It would probably just be easier to try to contact the host and see if they could assist you in installing pear on your server. It would probably be just as simple as downloading the pear package and putting it in a subdirectory and pointing your script to it.

Hi
Thanks for the reply.
I have already contacted the host and they have pointed me to some literature and commands to install pear.

I need to use something call SSH (i am sure you knw exactly what this is)

or I have comands for putty.

As far as the process is concerned, I am lost in the jargon and what is easy for you to understand, I struggle with.

Because there is a high traffic site on the same server, I worry about trying something, in case I take everything down

Thanks for your help
mark

umm... Who control's the PHP install on that server?