by Ken Task.
'Hero'?!!!! Ohhhhh, please. ;) But thanks for the thought!
Was about to ask for those specifics! Run a version 2.4.x on MAMP and XAMP off a Mac OSX laptop 'for fun', so was kinda surprised to hear of your issues.
However, it does show a flaw in the CLI install.php ... it should have told you that the version of PHP found (if it found the right one) didn't meet min. requirements.
Guess folks who are at command line are 'kinda expected' to know before executing stuff. ;) Actually, it makes life more interesting when one doesn't know what will happen ... never having been down a path before. Interesting behavior and one that I don't think I've seen anyone in these forums report.
It ought to work! ;)
'spirit of sharing', Ken