Many people use only pip for installing python packages. I think it's your best bet for getting the most up-to-date packages and having cross-platform compatibility, using pip freeze to get a list of what you might need for a project....probably other reasons, as well.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Dave Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
