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Installing PIL in a VirtualEnv

July 22, 2011

I had a problem installing the python imaging library (PIL) in a virtualenv on debian.

It gave the following error:

(bbr)drumcoder@drumcoder:~/jenkins/bbr/bbr$ easy_install pil
Searching for pil
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pil/
Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
Reading http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging
Reading http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm
Best match: PIL 1.1.7
Downloading http://effbot.org/media/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.tar.gz
Processing PIL-1.1.7.tar.gz
Running PIL-1.1.7/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-5wiR3d/PIL-1.1.7/egg-dist-tmp-0d8r_t
WARNING: '' …

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