Unable to get PIL to load jpeg images

[gr]

Peter,

Can you share the name of the library on the Fedora distro?

thx,

gerry rodman
http://www.gerryrodman.com/


peter.mosley at talk21.com wrote:
> Thanks for that tip
>
> Following a dialogue in that discussion group it is now working.  The
> problem was that I didn't have the right jpeg library installed
> (although what I had was enough to show jpegs in gThumb, GIMP and the
> Gnome and KDE desktops so I don't understand why it wasn't). I had to
> also install a jpeg development library, which fortunately was
> available on my Fedora Core 3 installation disc.
>
> A final glitch was that the previous broken build interfered with the
> linking of PIL to the libraries.  I went for overkill, and deleted all
> the PIL installation and site-packages directories, then reinstalled
> from the original tarball.  This gave a curious glitch, in that the
> first time I ran it it failed to load Tkinter with some obscure error
> message, but on a retry everything was fine.  This worries me slightly,
> as I don't know what happened and there is always a chance it could
> happen again, but until it does I can't investigate it.
>
> Slightly off topic, but I think my experience here is typical of any
> installation on a Linux system, and illustrates why, despite huge
> improvements over the last few years, Linux is not yet really suitable
> for non expert use.
>
> Thanks to everyone who's helped me over the last few months.
> 
> Peter