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@@ -10,8 +10,27 @@ Install File by running the following commands:
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<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr
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--datadir=/usr/share/misc &&</userinput>
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<userinput>make &&</userinput>
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- <userinput>make install &&</userinput>
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- <userinput>file -C</userinput>
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+ <userinput>make install</userinput>
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+
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+</literallayout></blockquote>
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+
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+<para>
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+File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers come with
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+File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database each time it
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+is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since compiling a
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+plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an
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+option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done
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+automagically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the
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+other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic
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+numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file
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+is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we
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+compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how
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+it was meant to be:
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+</para>
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+
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+<blockquote><literallayout>
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+
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+ <userinput>file -C</userinput>
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</literallayout></blockquote>
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