Is there a way I can install pillow on my windows machine?

Question

I tried installing the pillow library but I got this message

(venv) C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia>pip install pillow Collecting pillow Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3e/02/b09732ca4b14405ff159c470a612979acfc6e8645dc32f83ea0129709f7a/Pillow-7.2.0.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pillow Running setup.py install for pillow ... error Complete output from command C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-yl39rrsa\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\include\site\python3.8\pillow: running install running build running build_py creating build creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.8 creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\BdfFontFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\BlpImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\BmpImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\BufrStubImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ContainerIO.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\CurImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\DcxImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\DdsImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\EpsImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ExifTags.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\features.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\FitsStubImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\FliImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\FontFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\FpxImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\FtexImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GbrImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GdImageFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GifImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GimpGradientFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GimpPaletteFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\GribStubImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\Hdf5StubImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\IcnsImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\IcoImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\Image.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageChops.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageCms.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageColor.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageDraw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageDraw2.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageEnhance.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageFilter.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageFont.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageGrab.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageMath.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageMode.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageMorph.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageOps.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImagePalette.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImagePath.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageQt.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageSequence.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageShow.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageStat.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageTk.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageTransform.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImageWin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\ImtImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\IptcImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\Jpeg2KImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\JpegImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\JpegPresets.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\McIdasImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\MicImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\MpegImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\MpoImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\MspImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PaletteFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PalmImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PcdImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PcfFontFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PcxImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PdfImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PdfParser.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PixarImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PngImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PpmImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PsdImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PSDraw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\PyAccess.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\SgiImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\SpiderImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\SunImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\TarIO.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\TgaImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\TiffImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\TiffTags.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\WalImageFile.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\WebPImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\WmfImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\XbmImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\XpmImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL\XVThumbImagePlugin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_binary.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_tkinter_finder.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_util.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_version.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_init_.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL copying src\PIL_main_.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.8\PIL running egg_info writing src\Pillow.egg-info\PKG-INFO writing dependency_links to src\Pillow.egg-info\dependency_links.txt writing top-level names to src\Pillow.egg-info\top_level.txt reading manifest file 'src\Pillow.egg-info\SOURCES.txt' reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in' warning: no files found matching '.c' warning: no files found matching '.h' warning: no files found matching '.sh' warning: no previously-included files found matching '.appveyor.yml' warning: no previously-included files found matching '.coveragerc' warning: no previously-included files found matching '.editorconfig' warning: no previously-included files found matching '.readthedocs.yml' warning: no previously-included files found matching 'codecov.yml' warning: no previously-included files matching '.git' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.pyc' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.so' found anywhere in distribution no previously-included directories found matching '.ci' writing manifest file 'src\Pillow.egg-info\SOURCES.txt' running build_ext

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

Please see the install instructions at:
   https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\setup.py", line 864, in <module>
    setup(
  File "C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.egg\setuptools\__init__.py", line 145, in setup
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.egg\setuptools\command\install.py", line 61, in run
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 545, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 135, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 340, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\setup.py", line 694, in build_extensions
    raise RequiredDependencyException(f)
__main__.RequiredDependencyException: zlib

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\setup.py", line 918, in <module>
    raise RequiredDependencyException(msg)
__main__.RequiredDependencyException:

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

Please see the install instructions at:
   https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html



----------------------------------------

Command "C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-yl39rrsa\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Timo\PycharmProjects\jumia\venv\include\site\python3.8\pillow" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Timo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gr4big0c\pillow\

Answer 1

For install pillow:
                       pip install pillow
For Upgrade pillow:
                       python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
For upgrade pip:
                       python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip       

Answer 2

I found something on Reddit here

Quazaka 3 points · 7 months ago

I solved the problem. in order to install Pillow a newer version of pip is needed. The installation of python 3.8 only include pip version 19.0.x where pip version 19.3.x is needed. In order to upgrade pip run the following command in the venv (terminal in PyCharm)

python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip

Answer 3

Try installing it like this:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow