Python3 PIL Pillow Ubuntu Install

Question

I\'m running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed. I\'m relatively novice when it comes to installing Python Packages in Linux.

I\'m just tr

Answer 1

Pillow is packaged as python3-pil in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). You can install it system-wide with:

sudo apt-get install python3-pil

You seem to have already installed Pillow with pip earlier, but the default path it pip places it in is not read by the system Python. You can add it to the search path with:

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages:/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages

Generally you are better off using pip --user to avoid breaking the system installations or to stick with the packaged variants of base Python modules if possible.