PIL /JPEG Library: “decoder jpeg not available”

Question

I tried to use PIL to do some JPEG work in my django app with PIL but I\'m getting this IOError.. not sure what to do.

\"\"decoder jpeg not available\"\"
         


        

Answer 1

I don't have sudo privileges, because I am on a shared bluehost server. So I can't run any of those sudo apt-get jpeg commands. I ended up running

pip uninstall pil
pip install pillow

and apparently pillow was able to find support for jpegs.