Exception Value:failed to find libmagic. Check your installation in windows 7

Question

When I am trying to open django admin panel this error is showing:

ImportError at /admin/
failed to find libmagic.  Check your installation
Request Method: GET
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Answer 1

1. Download cygwin. The version of cygwin must as same as python.(exp: Although your OS is Win7 x64, you still should download 32 bit cygwin because your python is 32 bit). link: https://www.cygwin.com/
2. Install cygwin.
3. Enter the path of cygwin and copy cygwin1.dll/cyggcc_s-1.dll/cygmagic-1.dll/cygz.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.

Answer 2

As per the documentation the current version of python-magic is 0.4.15

• You can install the latest released version of python-magic through:

  pip install python-magic
  

• This will install python-magic-0.4.15 as follows:

  C:\Users\username>pip install python-magic
  Collecting python-magic
    Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/42/a1/76d30c79992e3750dac6790ce16f056f870d368ba142f83f75f694d93001/python_magic-0.4.15-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  Installing collected packages: python-magic
  Successfully installed python-magic-0.4.15
  

• In the (Windows) documentation it is mentioned:

You'll need DLLs for libmagic. @julian-r has uploaded a version of this project that includes binaries to pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic-bin/0.4.14

• You can install the python-magic-bin 0.4.14 through:

  pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14
  

• This will install python-magic-bin 0.4.14 as follows:

  C:\Users\username>pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14
  Collecting python-magic-bin==0.4.14
    Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5a/5d/10b9ac745d9fd2f7151a2ab901e6bb6983dbd70e87c71111f54859d1ca2e
  /python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl (397kB)
      100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 399kB 473kB/s
  Installing collected packages: python-magic-bin
  Successfully installed python-magic-bin-0.4.14
  

• Sample Code:

  import magic
  print(magic.from_file("C:/Users/username/Desktop/StackOverflow/Google_Gmail.png"))
  

• Console Output:

  PNG image data, 1366 x 768, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
  

Answer 3

Go here and then:

For Windoes 32bit, download the file "python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl" and run

pip install python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl

For Windows 64bit, download "python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl" and run

pip install python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl

now python-magic works

EDIT: As suggested in the comments, this also works:

pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14

Answer 4

Your multiuploader form uses python-magic library possibly for filetype identification. However you probably do not have all the missing dependencies installed. Please install the missing dependencies.

https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic#dependencies

Answer 5

Install cygwin. Then move 'C:\cygwin64\bin\cygmagic-1.dll' to 'C:\Windows\System32\magic1.dll'.