Install PIL with Jpeg support on Ubuntu oneiric 64bit

from:http://jj.isgeek.net/2011/09/install-pil-with-jpeg-support-on-ubuntu-oneiric-64bits/

I am posting this because it took me ages to the figure out how to solve this one.

I could not get PIL to compile with JPEG, Zlib or FreeType in my virtualenv. I am using Ubuntu oneiric Beta1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. That's a 64bit installation.

As read in every blog post off there, you first need to install the system libraries so PIL can find them.

$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 Libfreetype6-dev Zlib1g-dev

After that, the your regular should work under the most pip install PIL situations. In my case I am still seeing this summary after the installation:

    ---------------------------------------------------------------    * * * TKINTER support not available    ---JPEG Support does available    ---ZLIB (png/zip) support not available    ---FREETYPE2 support not available    * * * Littlec MS support Not available    ---------------------------------------------------------------

After a iot of Googling around, I found this solution on Ubuntu forums.
It turns out that the APT installations put the libraries under and /usr/lib/x86_64-Linux-gnu PIL would search for them in /usr/lib/ . So you had to create symlinks for PIL to see them.

# ln-s/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so/usr/lib# ln-s/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so/usr/lib# ln-s/US R/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so/usr/lib

Now proceed and Reinstal PiL, pip install -U PIL :

    ---------------------------------------------------------------    * * * TKINTER support not available    ---JPEG Support Available    ---ZLIB (png/zip) support available    ---FREETYPE2 support available    * * LITTLECMS support Not available    ---------------------------------------------------------------

Tada!

Update:
I just had this issue again on Ubuntu precise, I found a solution here:
http://www.sandersnewmedia.com/why/2012/04/16/installing-pil-virtualenv-ubuntu-1204-precise-pangolin/

# ln-s/usr/lib/' uname-i '-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so/usr/lib/# ln-s/usr/lib/' uname-i '-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so/usr/lib/ # ln-s/usr/lib/' uname-i '-linux-gnu/libz.so/usr/lib/

Note The That uname -i prints the box ' s arquitecture. This was a much more generic solution!

How to does it on Ubuntu precise Pagolin 12.04

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Later, according to http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging PIL source installation package in the Readme method to solve more convenient:

sudo install libjpeg62-dev  sudoinstall zlib1g-dev  sudo install libfreetype6-dev  sudoinstall Liblcms1-dev   

Install PIL with Jpeg support on Ubuntu oneiric 64bit