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

You need to install jpeg library first and reinstall your PIL. For example, I'm using CentOS, to install libjpeg, I run

sudo yum install -y libjpeg-devel

It depends on what kind of linux you are using. And here you have to remove the old PIL

rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/

Then install the PIL

sudo easy_install PIL

Answer 2

I don't have sudo privileges, because I am on a shared bluehost server. So I can't run any of those sudo apt-get jpeg commands. I ended up running

pip uninstall pil
pip install pillow

and apparently pillow was able to find support for jpegs.