How to install PIL in Ubuntu 11.04?

Question

I see this question asked all over the internet, and I\'ve tried following them all, but I still can\'t get PIL to work.

I tried symbolically linking the zlib, jpeg, et

Answer 1

I have successfully reinstalled PIL in Ubuntu 12.04 like this:

pip uninstall PIL
apt-get install libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
pip install -U PIL

It does not raise the IOError: decoder zip not available anymore after reinstalling the PIL. My error traceback was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "convert_image.py", line 15, in 
    image.save('output.png')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1406, in save
    self.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 189, in load
    d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 385, in _getdecoder
    raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name)
IOError: decoder zip not available