Build error on Fedora 33 (magic.h: No such file or directory) about imhex HOT 9 CLOSED

If you are using Fedora, you only need to do this:

sudo dnf install -y file-devel file-libs

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@iTrooz Sorry, should have been more descriptive ‒ a search for missing magic.h (for a different software) led me here, but installing file-devel helped only after enabling PowerTools.

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This file gets provided by libmagic which, at least on Arch and mingw, gets provided together with the file utility. Make sure you have libmagic properly installed.

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The file and file-libs packages are already installed, and I can't find libmagic using dnf search libmagic 🙁

dnf search magic doesn't bring relevant results either (mainly Python and Perl bindings).

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Weird. I'd have thought this is fairly standard on every linux distro. On Arch Linux, the file comes from the core/file package:

➜  include sudo pacman -F /usr/include/magic.h
usr/include/magic.h is owned by core/file 5.39-1

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/file/

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@laguf1 Per locate libmagic, I have libmagic on my system as /usr/lib64/libmagic.so.1 and /usr/lib64/libmagic.so.1.0.0.

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@laguf1 There's no such package in the Fedora repositories, other than file-libs which I already have installed:

file-libs.x86_64 : Libraries for applications using libmagic

Maybe I have to compile it from source, but that feels kind of sketchy to have to do it for such a common library 🙁

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In case someone stumbles upon this: https://serverfault.com/questions/997896/how-to-enable-powertools-repository-in-centos-8

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I don't understand, how does this relate to the issue ? Is there a package needed that is in this repository ?

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