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Pierre de LESPINAY
Pierre de LESPINAY

Reputation: 46228

Django - Upload a valid image

I'm using Ubuntu, Django 1.3, Python 2.7.
When I try to upload certain types of image, I get this message:

Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image.

It's happening with PNG and JPG (the formats that I need).
tiff and gif (that I don't and will never care about) are working.

What can I do ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2669

Answers (4)

Andrey Nikishaev
Andrey Nikishaev

Reputation: 3882

I found that this error can be caused by IntegrityError while saving to db

Upvotes: 0

Pierre de LESPINAY
Pierre de LESPINAY

Reputation: 46228

Install PIL !

$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging

(for Ubuntu or other Debian distrib)

Upvotes: 4

Tommaso Barbugli
Tommaso Barbugli

Reputation: 12031

If you get this error and you've PIL installed on Ubuntu check that you've jpeg, freetype, zlib libraries installed.

I suggest you also to use apt/aptitude rather than pip/easy_install.

If you really want to install PIL with pip please notice that the PIL setup will not find your installed libraries (libjpg ...) because Ubuntu installs those libs

here -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for 64bit or here -> /usr/lib/x86_32-linux-gnu for 32bit

to fix this you can add this to the setup.py (of course you need to download a copy of PIL from here -> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/)

around line 200 (you should see other paths around there)

add_directory(library_dirs, "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu")

Upvotes: 2

CuriousD
CuriousD

Reputation: 1775

And don't forget about jpeg-lib! Without it PIL willn't understand with what format it can works.

Upvotes: 2

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