PIL linux err

[John Machin]

On Feb 1, 5:41 am, dzizes <dzizes... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run simple .py on linux, which is using PIL. Below error
> message which I receive:
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 960, in
> histogram
>     self.load()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 180, in
> load
>     d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 375, in
> _getdecoder
>     raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name)
> IOError: decoder jpeg not available
>
> Do you know what might be the problem?

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