Requirements not installed: failed to find libmagic

[rancho666]

I run the requirements.txt successfully but get the error message trying to run msidump.py:

[!] Requirements not installed: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation
Install them with:
cmd> pip install -r requirements.txt

So I install libmagic manually but still the error message persists when running msidump.py

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

[skm248]

I think the issue is with below
python-libmagic 0.4.0 depends on cffi==1.7.0

I was able to download cffi latest version separately without any issues. But when I try to run the below command still getting an issue
pip install python-libmagic

error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.36.32532\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
[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
Failed to build cffi
ERROR: Could not build wheels for cffi, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[i128]

Long story short, use an older version of python3. Like 3.9

Ran into this same issue with 3.12. Got me to this post here:
python-cffi/cffi#48

Looks like its fixed in most recent release of cffi, but libmagic is hard locked on an older version of cffi. So until libmagic gets updated to use the most recent version of cffi, just use an older version of python

[mcopjan]

What helped me was downgrading to python 3.9 and then running this
Yelp/elastalert#1927 (comment)

[Ba4ck]

I used python 3.11
It's helped me
Yelp/elastalert#1927 (comment)