How to install PIL on Google DataLAB?

Question

I'm trying to install PIL using pip on google datalab with the following code:

%bash pip install pil

and receiving the following error:

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 /root/.pip/pip.log

any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

Answer 1

The following worked in my test environment:

%bash
apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev
pip install pillow