Re: Natty: Python Imaging Library in a virtualenv - no JPEG or PNG support
"George V. Reilly" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Charlie Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 09.05.2011, 18:34 Uhr, schrieb George V. Reilly <[email protected]>: > >> I'm unable to build PIL with JPEG and PNG support in Ubuntu 11.04. I >> posted this to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751455 on >> Friday but have received no responses. >> We build our Python webservices in a virtualenv with all external >> packages stored locally. This gives us reproducible results on a >> variety of Linux distros, Mac, and Windows, both for developer >> machines and production boxes. > > PIL isn't safe for use with easy_install. I hope that Naoki's post about the x86_64 libraries has helped as this came up recently. > > For virtualenv's the best choice, however, is to use the Pillow fork of PIL which runs fine with easy_install or pip. Oh, and try to avoid "activate" unless you're very confident of what you're doing. Thanks, Charlie et al. Ultimately, what I ended up doing was symlinking libjpeg.so and libz.so into /usr/lib, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did: $ pushd /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so libjpeg.so $ sudo ln -s i386-linux-gnu/libz.so libz.so -- /George V. Reilly [email protected] Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig