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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of File</title>
3
4<para>
5Install File by running the following commands:
6</para>
7
8<blockquote><literallayout>
9
10 <userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr
11 --datadir=/usr/share/misc &amp;&amp;</userinput>
12 <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
13 <userinput>make install</userinput>
14
15</literallayout></blockquote>
16
17<para>
18File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers come with
19File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database each time it
20is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since compiling a
21plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an
22option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done
23automagically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the
24other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic
25numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file
26is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we
27compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how
28it was meant to be:
29</para>
30
31<blockquote><literallayout>
32
33 <userinput>file -C</userinput>
34
35</literallayout></blockquote>
36
37</sect2>
38
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