pip install PIL -E TICKETS-1 - No JPEG/PNG support

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu and VitualEnv for my Django project.

I have PIL library installed using Synaptic Package Manager and it is working fine. But when I create an Vitru

Answer 1

A solution that seems to work for us (as of PIL 1.7.7) is to uninstall PIL first and then Pillow and then pip install pillow --upgrade. Of course you need to have libjpeg8-dev installed.

Answer 2

This thread on ubuntu forums covers this topic.

Answer 3

And just in case, if you are using virtualenv, you don't need to need to create system-wide symlinks, here is the universal workaround that works on any architecture:

ln -s /usr/lib/`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH`/libz.so $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH`/libfreetype.so $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH`/libjpeg.so $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/

And you need to execute these line inside virtualenv activated shell session, symlinks will be created inside your virtualenv lib directory.

Command dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is being used to detect main system libs directory (uname -i is not reliable). And environment variable $VIRTUAL_ENV is set by virtualenv activate script.