Django/PIL Error - Caught an exception while rendering: The _imagingft C module is not installed

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I'm trying to run a webapp/site on my machine, it's running on OSX 10.6.2 and I'm having some problems: ``` Caught an exeption while rending: The _imagingft C module is not installed ``` Doing import _imagingft in python gives me this: ``` >>> import _imagingft Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imagingft.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Done_Face Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imagingft.so Expected in: flat namespace in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PIL/_imagingft.so ``` It's seems that the Freetype library is the one having problems. No errors so far when installing PIL or when I compiled(?) the jpeg and freetype libraries so far. I'm on django 1.1.1, python 2.6.2.

Accepted Answer

I've had this problem as well. Couldn't resolve it with PIL 1.1.6 nor with PIL 1.1.7. I installed py26-pil from ports and presto, it works.

```
sudo port install py26-pil
```

If you don't have ports, go to http://www.macports.org/

Django/PIL Error - Caught an exception while rendering: The _imagingft C module is not installed

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