python - Can't install PIL

9
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I'm unable to install PIL. When I run pip install PIL I get:

Downloading/unpacking PIL
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PIL
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for PIL
Storing debug log for failure in /tmp/tmpWJojCu

I've tried following the answers to this question but I get the same error.

Stack: Python 2.7, PIP, EC2 Ubuntu machine.

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pythonpython-imaging-library
pip install pillow - Padraic Cunningham
See previous comment: use Pillow instead of outdated PIP. Also, your debug log is stored in /tmp/tmpWJojCu, so read that: it should give you more information on what went wrong. - Jens

1 Answers

20
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This one bites a lot of people, PIL has become pillow. 

pip install pillow

But the import name was unchanged, so it is different from the package name now. That is, you continue to use:

from PIL import Image