On May 3, 4:52 pm, Ivan Illarionov <ivan.illario... at gmail.com> wrote: > Try run 'python setup.py build_ext -f' to force setup.py to rebuild > everything with JPEG. And 'sudo python setup.py install' should install > PIL with JPEG support. yes, that works (the self test still gives misleading results ?) but running some sample program works fine thanks