Having difficulty installing ruby-filemagic gem on new RHEL6 server

Question

It appears to be looking for the libmagic.so.1 file. I have that file. It is located in /usr/lib64. I am not running this installation as the root user.

I am also using

Answer 1

Had same problem on Ubuntu 12.04. Just installed libmagic-dev package through following command:

sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev

Answer 2

I needed to do:

yum install file-devel

That apparently contains the libmagic header files that the filemagic ruby gem required in order to compile. It worked like a champ after that.

Answer 3

I had the same problem on OpenSuse 11.3. This helped:

zypper install file-devel

Answer 4

On a Mac, using homebrew:

sudo brew install libmagic