Doing a pip install reportlab on a relatively new/clean linux setup will probably result in something similar to this:
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PIL SETUP SUMMARY
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version Pillow x.y.z
platform linux2 2.x.y (default, MM dd YYYY, 01:01:01)
[GCC 4.x.y 20yymmdd (Red Hat x.y.z-a)]
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*** TKINTER support not available
*** JPEG support not available
*** OPENJPEG (JPEG2000) support not available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
*** LIBTIFF support not available
*** FREETYPE2 support not available
*** LITTLECMS2 support not available
*** WEBP support not available
*** WEBPMUX support not available
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To add a missing option, make sure you have the required
library, and set the corresponding ROOT variable in the
setup.py script.
The library reportlab actually depends on Pillow, and most of these are actually required/used by Pillow. But nevertheless it would be nice to have full support for images etc in Pillow (and by extension reportlab). So I'm going to describe below how to do that.
So You need to install libraries to add support for tkinter, jpeg, openjpeg, libtiff, freetype2, littlecms2, webp, and webpmux. But the reportlab install doesn't indicate what you need to install, i.e. the library package names that you need to type to correctly install these libraries.
I've listed below the commands you'll need to run to add support for these libraries for both Debian derived distributions that use apt-get (Ubuntu, Debian) and Red Hat derived distributions that use rpm or yum (Fedora, CentOS).
sudo yum install tk-devel tcl-devel
sudo yum install libjpeg-turbo-devel turbojpeg-devel openjpeg-devel
sudo yum install libtiff libtiff-devel
todo