Is there something wrong with the python-imaging apt package?

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, George V. Reilly <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's what I had to do to build PIL for a virtualenv on Ubuntu:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751455
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Nate Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Installing on Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit:
>>
>> I had to...
>>
>> to get jpeg support in PIL:
>> apt-get install libjpeg8-dev (not libjpeg62-dev)
>>
>> to get png support in PIL (libz.so is not where it expects it to be):
>> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib
>>
>> I believe 64-bit Ubuntu will have libz.so in an also-wrong-but-different
>> place for PIL.
>>
>> There are still some other things (Freetype, LittleCMS, TkInter) that I
>> don't have working in PIL ....could be similar to above where you need
>> alternate library or just symlinks.
>>
>> -- Nate
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Leo Shklovskii <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> If you're on windows, go grab the precompiled binaries. Compiling PIL
>>> from scratch on windows is a huge PITA.
>>>
>>> http://www.pythonware.com/**products/pil/<http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --Leo
>>>
>>>
>>> James Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> We'll be using PIL for the coding problem tonight.  You might want to
>>>> have it installed.  If you have pip, it's simply:
>>>>
>>>> pip install pil
>>>>
>>>> If you're on a Mac, and you get some crazy compile error, you might try
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64'
>>>> pip install pil
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> -- James
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> James Cooper
>>>> http://blog.bitmechanic.com/
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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