Do you get an error while installing the pillow Python library?
Failed building wheel for Pillow
Pillow is one of the very popular Python libraries and has been used by many other Python libraries as a dependency. So you may come across this failure even if you are trying to install any other library which is dependent on the pillow.
To solve this problem, you have to install two other libraries libjpeg-dev and zlib1g-dev from Linux package manager.
Here is the command. Execute it on bash shell/console.
apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev
And then install the pillow Python module.
That is all. With these simple two commands, you will be able to install the pillow Python module without any hassle.
I come across this error “Failed building wheel for Pillow” while setting up the Python Django project. I have executed these commands on my Ubuntu system and hopefully, it will work with any other Linux OS.
If you still face any issues, let me know in the comment. I will try my best to help you. All the best!
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(cuckoo) albert@zhuang-pc:~$ pip install cuckoo
Collecting cuckoo
Requirement already satisfied: unicorn==1.0.1 in ./miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from cuckoo)
Requirement already satisfied: alembic==0.8.8 in ./miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from cuckoo)
Requirement already satisfied: wakeonlan==0.2.2 in ./miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from cuckoo)
Collecting sflock<0.3,>=0.2.15 (from cuckoo)
# ...
Collecting pycparser (from cffi>=1.7; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"->cryptography>=1.3.4; extra == "security"->requests[security]==2.13.0; sys_platform == "linux2"->cuckoo)
Building wheels for collected packages: pillow
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pillow ... error
Complete output from command /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpN75cBapip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
# ...
building 'PIL._imagingtk' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk
Building using 4 processes
gcc -pthread -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/libImaging -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -c _imagingtk.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o
gcc -pthread -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/libImaging -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -c Tk/tkImaging.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o
In file included from Tk/tkImaging.c:52:0:
/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/tk.h:96:25: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
In file included from _imagingtk.c:19:0:
/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/tk.h:96:25: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc -pthread -shared -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -Wl,-rpath=/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -Wl,--no-as-needed -Wl,--sysroot=/ build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -L/lib64 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.6 -ltk8.6 -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/PIL/_imagingtk.so
gcc: error: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o: No such file or directory
gcc: error: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o: No such file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Failed building wheel for pillow
Running setup.py clean for pillow
Failed to build pillow
Installing collected packages: pillow, peepdf, olefile, python-magic, sflock, scapy, pymongo, idna, pycparser, cffi, enum34, asn1crypto, ipaddress, cryptography, pyOpenSSL, requests, pyelftools, yara-python, python-dateutil, functools32, jsonschema, pymisp, pefile2, cuckoo
Found existing installation: Pillow 4.3.0
Uninstalling Pillow-4.3.0:
Successfully uninstalled Pillow-4.3.0
Running setup.py install for pillow ... error
Complete output from command /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-i1e7bP-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
# ...
building 'PIL._imagingtk' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk
Building using 4 processes
gcc -pthread -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/libImaging -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -c _imagingtk.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o
gcc -pthread -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/libImaging -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -c Tk/tkImaging.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o
In file included from Tk/tkImaging.c:52:0:
/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/tk.h:96:25: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
In file included from _imagingtk.c:19:0:
/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/include/tk.h:96:25: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc -pthread -shared -B /home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/compiler_compat -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -Wl,-rpath=/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -Wl,--no-as-needed -Wl,--sysroot=/ build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -L/lib64 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -L/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.6 -ltk8.6 -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/PIL/_imagingtk.so
gcc: error: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_imagingtk.o: No such file or directory
gcc: error: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Tk/tkImaging.o: No such file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Rolling back uninstall of Pillow
Command "/home/albert/miniconda2/envs/cuckoo/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-i1e7bP-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-s5clPe/pillow/
Problem:
I am going through a tutorial that required me to install Pillow. I got the following errors when installing it on a vagrant box running Ubuntu Trusty.
Solution:
$ pip install Pillow ...<Lots of output> ValueError: jpeg is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-jpeg, aborting ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for Pillow
Installed libjpeg8-dev to meet the dependency.
$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev $ pip install Pillow ...<Lots of output> ValueError: zlib is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-zlib, aborting ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for Pillow
Installed zlib1g-dev to meet the dependency.
$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
$ pip install Pillow
Collecting Pillow
Downloading http://192.168.28.189:3141/root/pypi/+f/a64/6493gd7addc02/Pillow-3.2.0.zip (10.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 10.5MB 17.6MB/s
Building wheels for collected packages: Pillow
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for Pillow ... done
Stored in directory: /home/vagrant/.cache/pip/wheels/f3/66/d4/efw7da4e59d1c94f10f4395887b88ac892263f475
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Successfully built Pillow
Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-3.2.0
Source:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36973331/valueerror-jpeg-is-required-unless-explicitly-disabled-using-disable-jpeg-ab