ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation

[TheNoShade]

I have docker based python project. When trying to import magic and up my container I'm facing below error

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/magic/loader.py", line 49, in load_lib raise ImportError('failed to find libmagic. Check your installation') ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation

When I'm trying to install python-libmagic below error occurred

error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1 [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for cffi Running setup.py clean for cffi Successfully built python-libmagic Failed to build cffi ERROR: Could not build wheels for cffi, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I tried many things but all in vain. Please help to solve this issue. Thanks.

[ddelange]

Hi @TheNoShade 👋

• python-libmagic is a different (abandoned) project
• python-magic (this project) currently requires you to apt-get install libmagic1 (see README) before this project becomes usable.
  • A PR to fix this is open: Build platform-specific wheels containing libmagic #294

[ahupp]

Yes, ^^ that's true. Too many similarly named packages unfortunately.