Fail during installation of Pillow (Python module) in Linux
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I'm trying to install Pillow (Python module) using pip, but it throws this error:
ValueError: jpeg is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-jpeg, aborting
So as the error says, I tried:
pip install pillow --global-option="--disable-jpeg"
But it fails with:
error: option --disable-jpeg not recognized
Any hints how to deal with it?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
There is a bug reported for Pillow here, which indicates that libjpeg and zlib are now required as of Pillow 3.0.0.
The installation instructions for Pillow on Linux give advice of how to install these packages. Note that not all of the following packages may be missing on your machine (comments suggest that only libjpeg8-dev is actually missing).
pip / PyPi (Pillow>3.4.2)
The latest releases of Pillow are available on PyPi as wheels — the new standard packaging mechanism for Python. These prebuilt packages include all neccessary binary dependencies to allow Pillow to run and should be used if you want to install Pillow using PyPi
To use wheels, you need to have a version of pip>=1.4. If you are using an earlier version (pip --version) upgrade pip using the following:
pip install --upgrade pip
Once pip is upgraded, pip install will use platform-specific wheel files by default if they are available. Use the following command to upgrade Pillow to the latest version available on PyPi:
pip install --upgrade pillow
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Raspian Wheezy 7.0
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev python-tk
Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk
Ubuntu 18.04
sudo apt install libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev
Fedora 20
The Fedora 20 equivalent of libjpeg8-dev is libjpeg-devel.
sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel
Mac OS X (via Homebrew)
On Mac OS X with Homebrew this can be fixed using:
brew install libjpeg zlib
You may also need to force-link zlib using the following:
brew link zlib --force
Update April 2019: In Mojave the above will not work and you need to run the following as taken from this bug report on Pillow
sudo installer -pkg /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target /
Update July 2016: There is no longer a formula for zlib available in the main repository (Homebrew will prompt you to install lzlib which is a different library and will not solve this problem).
There is a formula available in the dupes repository. You can either tap this repository, and install as normal:
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install zlib
Or you can install zlib via xcode instead, as follows:
xcode-select --install
Thanks to phoenix, Panos Angelopoulou, nelsonvarela, benjaminz and Kal in the comments
After these are installed the pip installation of Pillow should work normally.
Solution 2 - Python
On Raspberry pi II, I had the same problem. After trying the following, I solved the problem. The solution is:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
Solution 3 - Python
Thank you @mfitzp. In my case (CentOS) these libs are not available in the yum repo, but actually the solution was even easier. What I did:
sudo yum install python-devel
sudo yum install zlib-devel
sudo yum install libjpeg-turbo-devel
And now pillow's installation finishes successfully.
Solution 4 - Python
The quickest fix is upgrate the pip. Did worked for me:
pip install --upgrade pip
Solution 5 - Python
This worked for me.
`sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev`
Solution 6 - Python
This worked for me to solve jpeg and zlib error :
C:\Windows\system32>pip3 install pillow --global-option="build_e
xt" --global-option="--disable-zlib" --global-option="--disable-jpeg"
Solution 7 - Python
brew install zlib
on OS X doesn't work anymore and instead prompts to install lzlib. Installing that doesn't help.
Instead you install XCode Command line tools and that should install zlib
xcode-select --install
Solution 8 - Python
I had the ValueError: zlib is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-zlib but upgrading pip from 7.x to 8.y resolved the problem.
So I would try to update tools before anything else.
That can be done using:
pip install --upgrade pip
Solution 9 - Python
The alternative, if you don't want to install libjpeg:
CFLAGS="--disable-jpeg" pip install pillow
From https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.0/installation.html#external-libraries
Solution 10 - Python
Working successfuly :
sudo apt install libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev
Solution 11 - Python
Try
pip install pillow
If it doesn't work, try clearing the
cache by pip install --upgrade pip
Then again run
pip install pillow
Solution 12 - Python
Anyone with Python 3.9 you can only install Pillow 8.0, Any version lower than that wouldn't work. For more check here.
So you can run it like this:
pip install Pillow==8.0.0
BTW this is tested on pip 21.0.1 (python 3.9) on MacOS Big Sur 11.2
Solution 13 - Python
On debian / ubuntu you only need: libjpeg62-turbo-dev
So a simple sudo apt install libjpeg62-turbo-dev
and a pip install pillow