Symfony+Pear: Task “generate:project” is not defined.

If you get this error when trying to start a new project it probably means that you’ve installed version 1.0 of Symfony. The generate:project task was introduced in version 1.1.

To be sure you’re running the latest version of Symfony follow these steps.

1. pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
2. pear uninstall symfony/symfony
3. pear install symfony/symfony-1.2.4

After that you should be able to move ahead without any trouble.

For more information take a look at the installation instructions for Symfony 1.2.