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I'm trying to install Pillow on Ubuntu 14.04 using this command:

pip install Pillow

but the installation fails with this error:

ValueError: --enable-jpeg requested but jpeg not found, aborting.

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The problem was that the package libjpeg-dev was not installed. To solve the problem you should do this:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
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    This. Throw in zlib1g-dev as well if you want PNG support.
    – spectras
    Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 7:11
  • This worked for me too! They should have libjpeg-dev as a dependency then! Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 17:38
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    After this sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
    – akki
    Commented Jun 4, 2016 at 6:11
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    yum install libjpeg-devel on Fedora
    – TAH
    Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 0:16
  • @JahongirRahmonov See my answer below. The dependencies are declared, but sometimes pip relies on an outdated cache.
    – ygesher
    Commented Aug 9, 2016 at 14:02
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Make sure Python-development packages are installed, if not then install it using the following commands :

For Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-setuptools

For Fedora

sudo dnf install python-devel

After installing the development packages install the following :

For Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk

For Fedora

sudo dnf install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel
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You have to install the missing dependencies and libraries that Pillow requires for it to work. Find the dependencies here

This are the current dependancies/libraries for Ubuntu 14.04 for Pilllow 3.0.0+. Install them by running the command below

sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk
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There may be a problem where pip is relying on a cached version of the dependencies, and clearing the cache can sometimes solve the problem. Just type

$ rm -rf ~/.cache/pip

Source: github issue

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You need to follow this tutorial Install pillow doc.

If you had installed, just uninstall and reinstall again:

$ pip uninstall pillow
$ pip install pillow --no-cache-dir

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