Installation

Warning

Pillow >= 2.1.0 no longer supports “import _imaging”. Please use “from PIL.Image import core as _imaging” instead.

Warning

Pillow >= 1.0 no longer supports “import Image”. Please use “from PIL import Image” instead.

Warning

PIL and Pillow currently cannot co-exist in the same environment. If you want to use Pillow, please remove PIL first.

Note

Pillow >= 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Note

Pillow < 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.

Simple installation

Note

The following instructions will install Pillow with support for most formats. See External libraries for the features you would gain by installing the external libraries first. This page probably also include specific instructions for your platform.

You can install Pillow with pip:

$ pip install Pillow

Or easy_install (for installing Python Eggs, as pip does not support them):

$ easy_install Pillow

Or download the compressed archive from PyPI, extract it, and inside it run:

$ python setup.py install

External libraries

Many of Pillow’s features require external libraries:

• libjpeg provides JPEG functionality.
  • Pillow has been tested with libjpeg versions 6b, 8, and 9
• zlib provides access to compressed PNGs
• libtiff provides group4 tiff functionality
  • Pillow has been tested with libtiff versions 3.x and 4.0
• libfreetype provides type related services
• littlecms provides color management
  • Pillow version 2.2.1 and below uses liblcms1, Pillow 2.3.0 and above uses liblcms2. Tested with 1.19 and 2.2.
• libwebp provides the Webp format.
  • Pillow has been tested with version 0.1.3, which does not read transparent webp files. Versions 0.3.0 and 0.4.0 support transparency.
• tcl/tk provides support for tkinter bitmap and photo images.
• openjpeg provides JPEG 2000 functionality.
  • Pillow has been tested with openjpeg 2.0.0.

If the prerequisites are installed in the standard library locations for your machine (e.g. /usr or /usr/local), no additional configuration should be required. If they are installed in a non-standard location, you may need to configure setuptools to use those locations (i.e. by editing setup.py and/or setup.cfg). Once you have installed the prerequisites, run:

$ pip install Pillow

Linux installation

Note

Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, and ArchLinux include Pillow (instead of PIL) with their distributions. Consider using those instead of installing manually.

Note

You do not need to install all of the external libraries to get Pillow’s basics to work.

We do not provide binaries for Linux. If you didn’t build Python from source, make sure you have Python’s development libraries installed. In Debian or Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools

Or for Python 3:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-setuptools

In Fedora, the command is:

$ sudo yum install python-devel

Prerequisites are installed on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with:

$ sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg62-dev zlib1g-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev python-tk

Prerequisites are installed with on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Raspian Wheezy 7.0 with:

$ sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev python-tk

Prerequisites are installed on Fedora 20 with:

$ sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
    lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel

Mac OS X installation

Note

You do not need to install all of the external libraries to get Pillow’s basics to work.

We do not provide binaries for OS X, so you’ll need XCode to install Pillow. (XCode 4.2 on 10.6 will work with the Official Python binary distribution. Otherwise, use whatever XCode you used to compile Python.)

The easiest way to install the prerequisites is via Homebrew. After you install Homebrew, run:

$ brew install libtiff libjpeg webp littlecms

If you’ve built your own Python, then you should be able to install Pillow using:

$ pip install Pillow

Windows installation

We provide binaries for Windows in the form of Python Eggs and Python Wheels:

Python Eggs

Note

pip does not support Python Eggs; use easy_install instead.

$ easy_install Pillow

Python Wheels

Note

Experimental. Requires setuptools >=0.8 and pip >=1.4.1

$ pip install --use-wheel Pillow

If the above does not work, it’s likely because we haven’t uploaded a wheel for the latest version of Pillow. In that case, try pinning it to a specific version:

$ pip install --use-wheel Pillow==2.3.0

Platform support

Current platform support for Pillow. Binary distributions are contributed for each release on a volunteer basis, but the source should compile and run everywhere platform support is listed. In general, we aim to support all current versions of Linux, OS X, and Windows.

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Contributors please test on your platform, edit this document, and send a pull request.

Operating system	Supported	Tested Python versions	Tested Pillow versions	Tested processors
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion	Yes	2.6,2.7,3.2,3.3		x86-64
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion	Yes	2.6,2.7,3.2,3.3	2.2.0	x86-64
Redhat Linux 6	Yes	2.6		x86
CentOS 6.3	Yes	2.7,3.3		x86
Fedora 20	Yes	2.7,3.3	2.3.0	x86-64
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS	Yes	2.6	2.3.0	x86,x86-64
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS	Yes	2.6,2.7,3.2,3.3,PyPy2.1 2.7,3.2	2.3.0 2.3.0	x86,x86-64 ppc
Ubuntu Linux 13.10	Yes	2.7,3.2,3.3	2.3.0	x86
Raspian Wheezy	Yes	2.7,3.2	2.3.0	arm
Gentoo Linux	Yes	2.7,3.2	2.1.0	x86-64
Windows 7 Pro	Yes	2.7,3.2,3.3	2.2.1	x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	Yes	3.3		x86-64
Windows 8 Pro	Yes	2.6,2.7,3.2,3.3,3.4a3	2.2.0	x86,x86-64
Windows 8.1 Pro	Yes	2.6,2.7,3.2,3.3,3.4	2.3.0, 2.4.0	x86,x86-64