You have to configure PHP with CLI option on your server. Ez will not configure PHP when you install using installers. You could contact your system administrator regarding this.
I am not a system admin. So, I do not have further details on this.
http://php3.de/manual/en/features.commandline.php
This was the link I gave to my sys admin when he had asked details regarding CLI. Hope you find this userful.
Which ones? I've been using it for a number of sites for a couple of weeks now. It only effects the update & cron scripts not the day to day running of the ez Publish application (admin and user sites).
Lets continue this here http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/workaround_for_installations_without_phpcli