Installing File-LibMagic

Installing File-LibMagic requires that you have the libmagic.so library and the magic.h header file installed. Once those are installed, this module is installed like any other Perl distributions.

Installing libmagic

On Debian/Ubuntu run:

sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev

On Mac you can use homebrew (http://brew.sh/):

brew install libmagic

Installation with cpanm

If you have cpanm, you only need one line:

% cpanm File::LibMagic

If you are installing into a system-wide directory, you may need to pass the "-S" flag to cpanm, which uses sudo to install the module:

% cpanm -S File::LibMagic

Installing with the CPAN shell

Alternatively, if your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do:

% cpan File::LibMagic

Manual installation

As a last resort, you can manually install it. Download the tarball, untar it, then build it:

% perl Makefile.PL
% make && make test

Then install it:

% make install

If you are installing into a system-wide directory, you may need to run:

% sudo make install

Specifying additional lib and include directories

On some systems, you may need to pass additional lib and include directories to the Makefile.PL. You can do this with the --lib and --include parameters:

perl Makefile.PL --lib /usr/local/include --include /usr/local/include

You can pass these parameters multiple times to specify more than one location.

Documentation

File-LibMagic documentation is available as POD. You can run perldoc from a shell to read the documentation:

% perldoc File::LibMagic