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jcavejr
jcavejr

Reputation: 131

Trouble Installing Pillow Raspbian Python 3.5 (Missing JPEG Dependency)

As you read in the title, I'm having trouble installing Pillow for Python 3 on Raspbian Jessie (raspberry pi 3). The error says:

The headers or library files could not be found for jpeg,
a required dependency when compiling Pillow from source.

plus a whole 300 some lines of other stuff, if the pastebin helps, http://pastebin.com/b3UUskB4

I've tried making sure all required dependencies, http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.x/installation.html#old-versions , were installed as follows:

apt-cache search <dependency name>
sudo apt-get install <name found from previous command>

And specifically for libjpeg and openjpeg (the 2 that I'd assume are the problem), I did:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg8
sudo apt-get install libopenjpeg5

I've also searched this issue before coming here. One thread I found, https://askubuntu.com/questions/156484/how-do-i-install-python-imaging-library-pil , which is for pil rather than pillow, said that pillow is probably looking in the wrong place for those dependencies, in which case I should execute the following:

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib/

but since those exact commands aren't going to work for my specific case, I tried to fix them and instead did:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib

So really I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but any guidance would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for any help!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2237

Answers (1)

Mike O&#39;Connor
Mike O&#39;Connor

Reputation: 2710

I'm going to suggest here that since Jessie is Debian and Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian that we can take a look at some Ubuntu posts for help. I have some experience with Python and Debian on microcomputers and indeed I found the apt-get business to go much the same as with Ubuntu on the desktop.

To wit, this post may provide the solution--- try build-dep rather than install. In particular, see the answer by roadmr on Jul 26 '13 and the links that he provides.

Upvotes: 3

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