Installing PIL to use with Django on Mac OS X

Question

I\'m really annoyed by installation of PIL (Python Imaging Library) on Mac OS X 10.6. Does anyone have it installed and could post the recipe here? I\'ve tried a lot of them

Answer 1

Yes, I have issues with PIL on 10.6.6 too, homebrew and easy_install.

The easiest solution for me was to easy_install PIL / pip install PIL, navigate to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/, and symlink the PIL-1.1.7-.....egg file to PIL

ln -s PIL-................egg PIL


>>> import PIL
>>> from PIL import Image
# no more problems.

Edit: These days, I try to use Pillow, a library built to help install PIL. Try pip install pillow - can't hurt!