Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#412 closed defect (fixed)

Add instructions to install libjpeg-dev or equivalent to docs

Reported by: Christopher Allan Webber Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: documentation Keywords: bitesized, docs
Cc: Parent Tickets:

Description

People are constantly running into this irritation because a custom PIL gets built in their virtualenv:

IOError: decoder jpeg not available

Should be easy to do. Add both to the sphinx docs in the mediagoblin/ checkout and to the wiki Hacking Howto

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Dani Estevez, 13 years ago

I tried many things to fix this issue, being these the most important:

comment:2 by Jakob Kramer, 13 years ago

I think it is enough to say: “Make sure there is no custom PIL in your lib folder.” My problems have always been solved by that (and only that). I think we should replace the suggestion to install pillow with making sure that there is no custom PIL and then close the issue.

I doubt installing pillow helps…

Last edited 13 years ago by Jakob Kramer (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by Christopher Allan Webber, 12 years ago

Component: component1documentation

comment:4 by ShawnRisk, 12 years ago

Owner: somebody removed
Status: newassigned

comment:5 by Jakob Kramer, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Can be closed, because PIL is not being installed by setup.py anymore.

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