PIL says it has “support available” but still give

Question

I am using PIL through virtualenv on ubuntu, installed with pip. I have changed the setup.py file to point to the decoders libaries. I get this message when I install PIL:

PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY

version       1.1.7
platform      linux2 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Aug 11 2011, 12:16:10)
              [GCC 4.6.1]

--- TKINTER support available
--- JPEG support available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
--- FREETYPE2 support available
--- LITTLECMS support available

But I still get "IOError: decoder jpeg not available" and "IOError: 'decoder zip not available'" messages when i'm saving a file. What is happening?

Answer 1

I think I already experienced the same problem. Also, I think this is a duplicate of this About the PIL Error -- IOError: decoder zip not available

1. Download PIL Source
2. Download zlib
3. Point PIL source to zlib
4. Rebuild PIL