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