How do I auto load packages (such as libjpeg-dev) to my Elastic Beanstalk App?

Question

I have a auto scaling Elastic Beanstalk app running Python where I want to use PIL. When I do, it says that my jpeg decoder is missing and that I need to install libjpeg.

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue, instead of setting up a completely new Elastic Beanstalk app, I connected to the EC2 instance via SSH and re-installed PIL (or Pillow).

On EC2 instance, I ran the following commands:

source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate
pip uninstall PIL
pip install PIL

Now PIL supports jpeg encoding =)