How do I use magic-file from shared-mime-info with fileinfo?

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January 9th, 2007, 09:00 PM

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How do I use magic-file from shared-mime-info with fileinfo?

After a lot of struggle, I finally managed to get fileinfo running with a valid magic-file/database - the one that came with libmagic.

This one however does not include for example the FLV video format mime-type which I need to be able to find.

I see that the package shared-mime-fino from freedesktop.org included the FLV mime-type in the 0.19 - release. Great! But I cannot use it with fileinfo! The magic-file in /usr/share/mime/magic is of binary format, not of gzip format and does not work with fileinfo - not even after a rename to magic.mime (required to have the /etc/apache2/magic - file accepted arlier).

EDIT: Tried update-mime-database /path/to/my/scripts/include/dir and using the generated magic-file to no avail. Did not help to rename inte magic.mime here either.

Any ideas of how to be able to use this file or any other method to find out if a file has the FLV-mimetype?

All tips appreciated!

Last edited by motin : January 10th, 2007 at 09:11 AM.

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