How to install PIL with pip on Mac OS?

Install Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools as mentioned. Use Pillow instead, as PIL is basically dead. Pillow is a maintained fork of PIL.

https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/

pip install Pillow

If you have both Pythons installed and want to install this for Python3:

python3 -m pip install Pillow

This works for me:

apt-get install python-dev
apt-get install libjpeg-dev
apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
apt-get install libpng3
apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib

pip install PIL  --allow-unverified PIL --allow-all-external

It is very simple using apt install use this command to get it done

sudo apt-get install python-PIL

or

sudo pip install pillow

or

sudo easy_install pillow

Install

pip install Pillow

Then, Just import in your file like,

from PIL import Image

I am using windows. It is working for me.

NOTE: Pillow is a functional drop-in replacement for the Python Imaging Library. To run your existing PIL-compatible code with Pillow, it needs to be modified to import the Imaging module from the PIL namespace instead of the global namespace.

i.e. change:

import Image

to:

from PIL import Image

https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/2.2.1/

You should install as described here:

pip install image

On Mac OS X, use this command:

sudo pip install https://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz

I got the answer from a discussion here:

I tried

pip install --no-index -f http://dist.plone.org/thirdparty/ -U PIL

and it worked.

I take it you're on Mac. See How can I install PIL on mac os x 10.7.2 Lion

If you use homebrew, you can install the PIL with just brew install pil. You may then need to add the install directory ($(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.7/site-packages) to your PYTHONPATH, or add the location of PIL directory itself in a file called PIL.pth file in any of your site-packages directories, with the contents: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL (assuming brew --prefix is /usr/local). Alternatively, you can just download/build/install it from source: # download curl -O -L http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz # extract tar -xzf Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz cd Imaging-1.1.7 # build and install python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install # or install it for just you without requiring admin permissions: # python setup.py install --user I ran the above just now (on OSX 10.7.2, with XCode 4.2.1 and System Python 2.7.1) and it built just fine, though there is a possibility that something in my environment is non-default.

These days, everyone uses Pillow, a friendly PIL fork, over PIL.

Instead of: sudo pip install pil

Do: sudo pip install pillow

$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging
$ sudo -H pip install pillow

For Ubuntu, PIL is not working any more. I always get:

No matching distribution found for PIL

So install python-imaging:

sudo apt-get install python-imaging

I'm having the same problem, but it gets solved with installation of python-dev.

Before installing PIL, run following command:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

Then install PIL:

pip install PIL

I had some errors during installation. Just in case somebody has this too. Despite that I already was sitting under admin user, but not root.

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/PIL'

Storing debug log for failure in /Users/wzbozon/Library/Logs/pip.log

Adding "sudo" solved the problem, with sudo it worked:

~/Documents/mv-server: $ sudo pip install Pillow

For CentOS:

yum install python-imaging

I tried all the answers, but failed. Directly get the source from the official site and then build install success.

Go to the site http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/#pil117 Click "Python Imaging Library 1.1.7 Source Kit" to download the source tar xf Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz cd Imaging-1.1.7 sudo python setup.py install

I nailed it by using sudo port install py27-Pillow

Try this:

sudo pip install PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL

(Window) If Pilow not work try download pil at http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

First you should run this sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging which will give you all the dependencies that you might need

Then run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Followed by sudo apt-get install python-pip

And then finally install Pil pip install pillow

Search on package manager before using pip. On Arch linux you can get PIL by pacman -S python2-pillow

For Ubuntu, you can install PIL using apt install:

For Python 3 use:

sudo apt install python3-pil

For Python 2 use:

sudo apt install python-pil

Where pil should be lowercase as Clarkey252 points out

There's another Python package tool called conda. Conda is preferred (I believe) over pip when there are libraries that need to install C++ and other bindings that aren't pure Python. Conda includes pip in its installation as well so you can still use pip, but you also get the benefits of conda.

Conda also installs IPython, pil, and many other libraries by default. I think you'll like it.