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Ubuntu - Enable jpeg support with PIL
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ubuntu-pil-pip-jpeg
Tested with ubuntu 11.04 (python 2.7)
If you have the following error by using PIL:
decoder jpeg not available
You may try:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev
or:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev
and then:
sudo pip install --upgrade PIL
And if failed:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
sudo pip install --upgrade PIL
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