“The headers or library files could not be found for jpeg” installing Pillow on Alpine Linux

Question

I\'m trying to run Python\'s Scrapy in a Docker container based on python:alpine. It was working before, but now I\'d like to use Scrapy\'s Image Pipeline which requires me to i

Answer 1

For macOS:

brew install libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2

Reason: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Answer 2

This worked for me

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev
pip install Pillow

Answer 3

If you're missing libjpeg.so package in runtime, try this (alpine linux):

apk add --no-cache jpeg

Answer 4

have you seen this QA? Fail during installation of Pillow (Python module) in Linux

they say you have to update your pip and install libjpeg-dev.