Pear Installation Problem

[papaerillusion]

Hello people I am new to this forum and my problem is this:
I am trying to install the php-pear package using the go-pear.php script. After I configure the routes I want the pear packages to be in, I get the following message

Starting installation ...
Loading zlib: failed
Downloading uncompressed packages
parent.setprogress(5); Downloading package: PEAR-stable......ok
parent.setprogress(14); Downloading package: Archive_Tar-stable....ok
parent.setprogress(23); Downloading package: Console_Getopt-stable....ok
parent.setprogress(32); Downloading package: Structures_Graph-stable....ok
parent.setprogress(41); Downloading package: HTML_Template_IT-stable....ok
parent.setprogress(50); Downloading package: Net_UserAgent_Detect-stable....ok
parent.setprogress(59); Downloading package: PEAR_Frontend_Web-alpha....ok
parent.setprogress(68); Bootstrapping: PEAR...................(remote)
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and it just stays there. Now I am using php5.02 and the zlib libary is there. To make sure I downloaded the zlib library and installed it separatly but it still shows me the same error......... any idea what could it be?..........

thanks in advance The paper of love