Can't get PIL to support any images

Question

After installing PIL with pip install PIL under Ubuntu 11.10, the summary tells me "not available" on all items.

I've read through several "answers" like http://obroll.com/install-python-pil-python-image-library-on-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric/

which essentially tells me the same thing: Install PIL after libjpeg.

I still can't get it to work. (I'm a novice with ubuntu)

Any ideas?

Copy/Paste from the summary:

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PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY
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version       1.1.7
platform      linux2 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:03:08)

              [GCC 4.6.1]
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*** TKINTER support not available
*** JPEG support not available
*** ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support not available
*** FREETYPE2 support not available
*** LITTLECMS support not available
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Answer 1

Finaly got it working. My experience was that even though I installed in the correct order, PIL still could not find libjpeg.

What I did:

1. make sure libjpeg8 and libjpeg8-dev is installed and find out where it is installed with "locate libjpeg"
2. pip install --no-install PIL" -> downloads the install files
3. edit setup.py from the virtual environment's build directory and set JPEG_ROOT. In my case: JPEG_ROOT = "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/"
4. "pip install PIL" -> will now install PIL with the modified setup.py and find the libjpeg.

Answer 2

PIL works on my machine. My possibly relevant installed packages (dpkg --get-selections | grep jpg) are:

libjpeg-progs
libjpeg62
libjpeg62:i386
libjpeg62-dev
libjpeg8
libmjpegtools-1.9
libopenjpeg2

So you could try just installing the lot and reinstalling PIL. Not a very insightful answer I'm afraid.