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I'm trying to install Pillow (Python module) using pip, but it throws this error:

ValueError: jpeg is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-jpeg, aborting

So as the error says, I tried:

pip install pillow --global-option="--disable-jpeg"

But it fails with:

error: option --disable-jpeg not recognized

Any hints how to deal with it?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo

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Answer 1 · 2022-03-01T16:04:08.433Z

Working successfuly :

 sudo apt install libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev

Answer 2 · 2022-03-01T16:04:08.662Z

Anyone with Python 3.9 you can only install Pillow 8.0, Any version lower than that wouldn't work. For more check here.

So you can run it like this:

pip install Pillow==8.0.0

BTW this is tested on pip 21.0.1 (python 3.9) on MacOS Big Sur 11.2

Answer 3 · 2022-03-01T16:04:09.029Z

I had the ValueError: zlib is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-zlib but upgrading pip from 7.x to 8.y resolved the problem.

So I would try to update tools before anything else.

That can be done using:

pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 4 · 2022-03-01T16:04:09.276Z

This worked for me.

   `sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev`

Answer 5 · 2022-03-01T16:04:09.479Z

This worked for me to solve jpeg and zlib error :

C:\Windows\system32>pip3 install pillow --global-option="build_e
xt" --global-option="--disable-zlib" --global-option="--disable-jpeg"

Answer 6 · 2022-03-01T16:04:09.753Z

The quickest fix is upgrate the pip. Did worked for me:

pip install --upgrade pip