No such file or directory “limits.h” when installing Pillow on Alpine Linux

Question

I\'m running alpine-linux on a Raspberry Pi 2. I\'m trying to install Pillow via this command:

pip install pillow

This is the output from the

Answer 1

I've found some python packages fail to install via pip install but work if you install the associated alpine linux package. For example pip install uwsgi fails complaining about limits.h, but apk add uwsgi-python works fine. Suggest trying apk add py-pillow instead of pip install pillow.