pip install PIL -E TICKETS-1 - No JPEG/PNG support

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu and VitualEnv for my Django project.

I have PIL library installed using Synaptic Package Manager and it is working fine. But when I create an Vitru

Answer 1

A solution that seems to work for us (as of PIL 1.7.7) is to uninstall PIL first and then Pillow and then pip install pillow --upgrade. Of course you need to have libjpeg8-dev installed.