Trouble installing Pillow / PIL

[tm48]

Hey,
I am new to Raspberry Pi and the terminal. I want to write a simple python program that can display a JPEG but I am having issues downloading/installing PIL (Python Imaging Library)/Pillow. I tried to do sudo apt-get and it says it is done but then it doesn't work. I also tried downloading the module and saving the files but now how do I actually install it?

[DirkS]

I tried to do sudo apt-get and it says it is done but then it doesn't work.

What was the exact command you used for installation?
How did you try to use it?
Did you get any error messages?

Gr
Dirk.

[tm48]

I found out that I couldn't run the "setup.py" file that comes in PIL because I didn't have the Setuptools module installed properly. I vaguely remember getting an error when I had done:

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 sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools 

What should I do to fix that? Should I just try downloading it again?

Also, is there a specific place that I should have saved the Pillow-2.3.0 module file? I have it currently saved inside /home/pi and am not sure if this could be contributing to the problem that I am having.

[tm48]

How did you try to use it?

I was trying to do something like:

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from PIL import image
global ext
ext = ".jpg"
imageFile = "test.jpg"
img = Image.open(imageFile) 

or something like:

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import Image 
img = Image.open("test.jpg")
img.save("test.png")
img.show()

[DirkS]

I found out that I couldn't run the "setup.py" file that comes in PIL because I didn't have the Setuptools module installed properly. I vaguely remember getting an error when I had done:

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 sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools 

What should I do to fix that? Should I just try downloading it again?

Yes, I would again with installing python-dev and python-setuptools. If you get any error messages you can't resolve just report back here.

Also, is there a specific place that I should have saved the Pillow-2.3.0 module file? I have it currently saved inside /home/pi and am not sure if this could be contributing to the problem that I am having.

IIRC you can put it anywhere, but you have to extract it and then use the setup line you used. The setup will normally take care of the rest. It could be that you have use 'sudo'.

As said, since you don't know what error message you got I would just start from the beginning again.

HTH
Dirk.

[tm48]

Okay so here is what I got:

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pi@raspberrypi ~/Pillow-2.3.0 $ sudo python3 setup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 19, in <module>
    from setuptools import Extension, setup, find_packages
ImportError: No module named setuptools

I did this:

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sudo apt-get install python-setuptools 

And I got no errors and it said that its already installed. I don't get why it says there is no module.

[DirkS]

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pi@raspberrypi ~/Pillow-2.3.0 $ sudo python3 setup.py

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sudo apt-get install python-setuptools 

Aha... it seems you're using python 3. It has its own version of the setuptools so you have to use

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sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

HTH
Dirk.

[tm48]

Great! I downloaded the python3 version of it. And now I got this:

pi@raspberrypi ~/Pillow-2.3.0 $ sudo python3 setup.py
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

[DougieLawson]

sudo python3 setup.py install

[tm48]

Great! That seemed to work. Thank you!

[tm48]

So I must have done something wrong because I used this command:

sudo python3 setup.py install

However, when I tried running my code on IDLE3 it says its invalid. But it runs successfully on IDLE. Should I be concerned about this?

This is the code that I have so far:

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from PIL import Image
global ext

ext = ".jpg"
imageFile = "code.jpg"
iml = Image.open(imageFile)

iml.show()
print iml.format 

I added the last line for debugging because iml.show didn't output anything even though the program ran succesfully. I have read online that apparently I have to download the xv utility for iml.show() to work. Is that right? Or could it be because of my previous issues?

[AndrewS]

However, when I tried running my code on IDLE3 it says its invalid. But it runs successfully on IDLE. Should I be concerned about this?

It's hard to tell, without seeing the exact error message...

[tm48]

It's hard to tell, without seeing the exact error message...

It highlights "iml" in

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print iml.format

and a pop up that says invalid syntax comes up.

If I try commenting that out, then I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/testide.py", line 1, in <module>
from PIL import Image
ImportError: No module named PIL

[AndrewS]

It's hard to tell, without seeing the exact error message...

It highlights "iml" in

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print iml.format

and a pop up that says invalid syntax comes up.

That's because in Python3, print is a function rather than a statement, so you'd need to change it to

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print(iml.format)

If I try commenting that out, then I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/testide.py", line 1, in <module>
from PIL import Image
ImportError: No module named PIL

This suggests that using pip3 is more reliable for installing pillow than setuptools is?

[tm48]

This suggests that using pip3 is more reliable for installing pillow than setuptools is?

I was following that but got an error when I was downloading this dependency:

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sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \ libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev

The error I got is

E: Unable to locate package libfreetype6-dev

And then the final install commands on that page are only for Ubuntu. What should I do?

[DirkS]

Remove the backslash from the install command line:

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sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev

and try again.

Gr.
Dirk.

[tm48]

This suggests that using pip3 is more reliable for installing pillow than setuptools is?

I was following that but got an error when I was downloading this dependency:

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sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \ libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev

The error I got is

E: Unable to locate package libfreetype6-dev

Nevermind, I got those to work when I downloaded them individually. Now, my problem is just with these commands:

Install Pillow
For Ubuntu 13.10+: sudo pip3 install Pillow
and for 13.04-: sudo pip-3.2 install Pillow

I get an error: Invalid operation pip3

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[AndrewS]

Now, my problem is just with these commands:

Install Pillow
For Ubuntu 13.10+: sudo pip3 install Pillow
and for 13.04-: sudo pip-3.2 install Pillow

I get an error: Invalid operation pip3

After doing 'sudo apt-get install python3-pip' on Raspbian, I then have a pip-3.2 command available...

[tm48]

After doing 'sudo apt-get install python3-pip' on Raspbian, I then have a pip-3.2 command available...

That worked! Now I have this code in IDLE3 that compiles but doesn't show me the image:

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from PIL import Image
global ext

ext = ".jpg"
imageFile = "blah.jpg"
iml = Image.open(imageFile)

iml.show()
print(iml.format, iml.size)

Should I use a different program to ran it? I just want to get the image to display on the screen through code. In the future, it will be when the user selects a button.

[joan]

The PIL Image show function used to use a program called xv to display the image on *nix systems.

xv has been effectively deprecated for some time.

That might be why you get no display.

[tm48]

The PIL Image show function used to use a program called xv to display the image on *nix systems.

xv has been effectively deprecated for some time.

That might be why you get no display.

Wow. Thank you for informing me! Do you know of any alternatives that I could use to display an image?

[joan]

The PIL Image show function used to use a program called xv to display the image on *nix systems.

xv has been effectively deprecated for some time.

That might be why you get no display.

Wow. Thank you for informing me! Do you know of any alternatives that I could use to display an image?

Not my field I'm afraid. I know very little about graphics.

However I just tried the following which appeared to work.

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sudo apt-get install xli

cd /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/xli xv

That points the xv command to xli. It worked for me with Python on my laptop.

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Python 2.7.8 (default, Jul  4 2014, 13:08:34) 
[GCC 4.9.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PIL.Image as Image
>>> a=Image.open("mdb.jpg")
>>> a.show()

[AndrewS]

Other options...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pytho ... play+image
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pytho ... play+image
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pytho ... play+image
etc.

[paddyg]

For most major unix distributions Pillow has now replaced (the deprecated) PIL. However, for some unknown reason, raspbian continues to hide it away in jessie. NB raspbian maintainers, please move it over SOON!
This is the quickest way to get Pillow/PIL but not feasible from an installation script

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you need to add an additional line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

(i.e. the same as the existing line but with jessie for wheezy) then run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pil
   or
sudo apt-get install python3-pil

[DirkS]

However, for some unknown reason, raspbian continues to hide it away in jessie

Reason seems clear to me: it's not in Debian wheezy either.