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James L.
James L.

Reputation: 1153

Django 1.6: The _imagingft C module is not installed

I'm trying to use the Django-simple-captcha http://django-simple-captcha.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html in my django app. But the captcha image is not showing up in the templates. I get the following error when I viewed the source code in my browser. I've followed the documenation carefully and have syncdb everything. 

Traceback:
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  114.                     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/captcha/views.py" in captcha_image
  46.         font = ImageFont.truetype(settings.CAPTCHA_FONT_PATH, settings.CAPTCHA_FONT_SIZE * scale)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py" in truetype
  228.         return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py" in __init__
  131.             self.font = core.getfont(font, size, index, encoding)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py" in __getattr__
  42.         raise ImportError("The _imagingft C module is not installed")

Exception Type: ImportError at /captcha/image/f02c7bf84cd31c4caf8d6b2f8931a01689902c83/
Exception Value: The _imagingft C module is not installed

I know that this question has been asked several times before and I've read several stackoverflow answers but I'm still very confused about the course of action.

I've Pillow installed on my OSX Mavericks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3633

Answers (2)

Renato Prado
Renato Prado

Reputation: 4150

Works for me in ubuntu 14.04:

pip uninstall pil

or(depends what you are using)

 pip uninstall pillow

then

sudo apt-get update

apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libxft-dev  libjpeg62  libjpeg-devel

in the output, make sure the installation was complete

And finnaly

pip install pil

or 

pip install pillow

Upvotes: 0

guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27969

I solved the above error by installing freetype and freetype2 devel packages before running pip install Pillow.

Worked on SuSE Linux.

Upvotes: 1

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