[Oisf-users] configure magic.h not found

Josh White josh at securemind.org
Wed Dec 21 22:07:05 UTC 2011


Rob,

if your in an dpkg "ubuntu" environment then you'll need magic and
magic-devel, if your in a rpm "fedora, redhat, centos" environment then
you'll need file and file-devel.

Josh

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Dewhirst, Rob <robdewhirst at gmail.com>wrote:

> Trying to upgrade to 1.2b1, getting an error during configure:
>
> checking magic.h usability... no
> checking magic.h presence... no
> checking for magic.h... no
> configure: error: magic.h not found ...
>
> Presumably this is related to the new file extraction based on magic
> numbers.
>
> But I already have libmagic1 installed.  What else would I be missing?
>
> Ubuntu 10.0.4.3 amd64
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