Talk:Fileinfo

Some things that don't work as 17-2-2009
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_4.21.orig.tar.gz or http://debian.cruisix.net/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_4.21.orig.tar.gz don't work, since the files don't exist.
 * The script won't work, because the lines where it tries to wget

I happened to find a proper one here: http://ftp.linux.org.tr/ubuntu/pool/main/f/file/file_4.21.orig.tar.gz

http://www.chipsncheese.com/dist/finfo/config.m4 in the "ugly part of the script"... don't exist anymore. Again, this is easy to solve, because a) someone posted the instructions to modify the original config.m4 and b) you have already downloaded the package Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz inside ~/dist, and config.m4 is inside the .tgz file. Unpack it, edit and apply these modifications: line 8 -  SEARCH_PATH="/usr/local /usr /usr/share/file" +  SEARCH_PATH="$HOME/source/file" line 50 -  MAGIC_MIME_DIRS="/usr/local/share/file /usr/share/file /usr/share/misc/file /etc /usr/share/misc" +  MAGIC_MIME_DIRS="$HOME/source/file"
 * Also, the file which tries to get wget at

Save it inside ~/dist/finfo

It could be great if the script could be upgraded to a reliable source for file4.21.orig.tar.gz and to patch the original downloaded config.m4 instead of relying on putting it in a URL which would be dead in a few months.

Instead of modifying the extension_dir line in php.ini to look like this: extension_dir = "~/php5/lib/php/extensions" I only could get it working by putting the entire absolute path for my domain, that is something like: extension_dir = "/home/MYDOMAIN.TDL/php5/lib/php/extensions"
 * Finally, this is one freaked me for many hours:

Hope this will be useful for someone.

It was useful for me so i implemented some of it on the page, using sed to modify the config.m4 instead of relying on the broken download, also i have put the url you found as a third trial to wget... hope it will help...