Install PHP Pear and Phing on Ubuntu (Tested on Ubuntu 10.10)
# Installation guide found here: http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/
// First add PHP Pear
sudo apt-get install php-pear
// Adding Pear Channel
sudo pear channel-discover pear.phing.info
// Installing Pear
pear install phing/phing
// if you don't have PEAR's VersionControl_Git package installed
pear install VersionControl_Git-alpha