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

There is a selftest.py in your Imaging installation folder, try:

python selftest.py

you will see something like that:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
*** PIL CORE support not installed
*** TKINTER support not installed
--- JPEG support ok
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
*** FREETYPE2 support not installed
*** LITTLECMS support not installed
--------------------------------------------------------------------

if JPEG support not available, Centos:

yum install libjpeg-devel
yum install freetype-devel 
yum install libpng-devel