Friday, March 6, 2015

Pillow install via pip on Ubuntu 14.04

First install dependencies then make symlink to /usr/lib

$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/ 
pip install Pillow 

Python on Ubuntu

Pydev is problematic on OS X so I moved to Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu as a guest VM. I recommend anyone same