Python Image Library fails with message "decoder JPEG not available" - PIL
jpeg, python, python-imaging-library
Solution
libjpeg-dev is required to be able to process jpegs with pillow (or PIL), so you need to install it and then recompile pillow. It also seems that libjpeg8-dev is needed on Ubuntu 14.04
If you're still using PIL then you should really be using pillow these days though, so first `pip uninstall PIL` before following these instructions to switch, or if you have a good reason for sticking with PIL then replace "pillow" with "PIL" in the below).
On Ubuntu:
# install libjpeg-dev with apt
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
# if you're on Ubuntu 14.04, also install this
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
# reinstall pillow
pip install --no-cache-dir -I pillow
If that doesn't work, try one of the below, depending on whether you are on 64bit or 32bit Ubuntu.
For Ubuntu x64:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib
Or for Ubuntu 32bit:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/
Then reinstall pillow:
pip install --no-cache-dir -I pillow
(Edits to include feedback from comments. Thanks Charles Offenbacher for pointing out this differs for 32bit, and t-mart for suggesting use of `--no-cache-dir`).
Problem
PIL does support JPEG in my system. Whenever I do an upload, my code is failing with: ``` File "PIL/Image.py", line 375, in _getdecoder raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name) IOError: decoder jpeg not available ``` How can I resolve this?