How to install PIL in Ubuntu 11.04?

Question

I see this question asked all over the internet, and I\'ve tried following them all, but I still can\'t get PIL to work.

I tried symbolically linking the zlib, jpeg, et

Answer 1

As always, use the package manager:

sudo apt-get install python-imaging

It'll deal with it all for you. The packages are available.

Manually installing, in any Linux distro, is a wasted endeavour, unless the packages really don't exist. Package maintainers spend time ensuring that the package works and installs correctly, there is no point duplicating their effort. Especially not to manually install something that then doesn't have the advantages of a package - no automatic updating, no easy removal, etc...