I try to install PIL but get errors, what should I do?

$ Command Result ------------ $ pip install PIL Collecting PIL Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for PIL -------------------------------------------------------------------- $ pip install PIL --allow-unverified PIL --allow-all-external DEPRECATION: --allow-all-external has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. Due to changes in the repository protocol, it no longer has any effect. DEPRECATION: --allow-unverified has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. Due to changes in the repository protocol, it no longer has any effect. Collecting PIL Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for PIL
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3 Answers

You could try using Pillow instead, which is a PIL fork:

pip install Pillow

To import use:

from PIL import Image
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The library PIL is in Pillow. Try this:

$ pip install Pillow

Not sure if there is a better way than this. But this may work as described in the documentation:

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Download the source kit and extract it. Once extracted, do the following as described in the kit.

 $ tar xvfz Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz $ cd Imaging-1.1.7 $ python setup.py install
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