Running iLEAPP on macOS, no module named 'magic' found

[WKirklandJr]

Hello,

I was following the install instructions here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYV5vVAdu4) and encountered an error when I tried installing the dependendencies from requirements.txt. For some reason it is unable to find magic & python magic.

I have XCode installed however I am on a MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max Chip.

[stark4n6]

I'm not sure if applicable on Mac but I know this issue gets fixed after installed the Visual Studio items on Windows https://youtu.be/7qvVFfBM2NU?si=B93oHWTmLaVPHN2h&t=116

[Johann-PLW]

I also had the same issue on a Mac Studio with an Apple M1 Max chip with a fresh install of Sonoma.
I don't know if it is related to the Python version or Xcode15 Command Line Tools as I don't have the same issue on a Mac Mini M1.
I presume this is not the best solution but I fixed that using brew and installing libmagic (brew install lib magic)
Don't forget to comment 'python-magic-bin==0.4.14; platform_system == "Darwin"' in requirements.txt files and type again pip install -r requirements.txt.
Hope it will help you.

[WKirklandJr]

Okay that helped a bit, I installed libmagic with brew and ran the pip3 install -r requirements.txt with no errors or issues after taking/commenting out the "python-magic-bin" however when I ran the iLEAPPGUI.py file, I got this:

Is it due to my lib magic being in the wrong directory of where it's looking?

[Johann-PLW]

I did a test in a VM with a fresh install of macOS Sonoma 14.1.1. and it worked.
I downloaded Python 3.11.6, opened a terminal and typed git --version to install Xcode Command Line tools, cloned the iLEAPP repo in my Documents folder and comment the 'python-magic-bin==0.4.14; platform_system == "Darwin"' line in the requirements.txt file.
In the terminal, I installed the dependencies (pip3 install -r requirements.txt) ant tried to launch ileappGUI.py but the libmagic module was not found.

I installed brew then the libmagic formula without any additional parameter (I.E: path)

After that, I was able to start iLEAPP in both GUI and CLI.

Verify that the libmagic formula is available with 'brew list' command: