Python PIL cannot locate my “libjpeg”

Question

I cannot use PIL because it cannot find my libjpeg!

First, I installed PIL default. And when I ran the selftest.py, it gave me:

IOError: dec         


        

Answer 1

There at least 3 header sets that you will want to install. 1 more if you want to deal with Tiff's

freetype, libjpeg, zlib all of which will be in the following packages on CentOS:

== 32 Bit: zlib-devel.i386 libjpeg-devel.i386 freetype-devel.i386

== 64 Bit: zlib-devel.x86_64 libjpeg-devel.x86_64 freetype-devel.x86_64

As you did before you will want to edit the following variables in the setup.py file:

FREETYPE_ROOT JPEG_ROOT ZLIB_ROOT

Setting there values to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 based on your platform. Once done you will most likely want to run

python setup.py build --force
python setup.py install

That will force rebuild all your lib for PIL and reinstall them raw.