I'm on Centos 5.3 and I was able to get PECL installers running (APC in my case) successfully by removing the noexec flag on both /tmp and var/tmp.
I quickly wrote that up and was able to install APC with a bit of manual work. Such as copying the module to PHP modules and adding the extension to the php.ini. Works perfectly now.
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