PIL /JPEG Library: “decoder jpeg not available”

Question

I tried to use PIL to do some JPEG work in my django app with PIL but I\'m getting this IOError.. not sure what to do.

\"\"decoder jpeg not available\"\"
         


        

Answer 1

A stronger answer can be found at install pil on virtualenv with libjpeg

For me what finally worked on Ubutu was:

pip uninstall PIL
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
pip install PIL

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) seems really picky about version and location of the jpeg libraries. And because PIL is written in C and compiled, you need the development versions of the library in addition to the runtime versions.