Hi all, Is there a recommended way to replace the PIL by Pillow (and also install Pillow without a previous PIL package installed) on a Wheezy box ?
The Pillow documentation <https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html> says that prior to install Pillow you have to remove the PIL ; and also that Debian already provides Pillow instead of PIL which is not the case according to the package description (python-imaging). I am a bit confused by the packages names / informations on my Wheezy platform : 1. python-imaging <https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-imaging> seems to provide the original/now unmaintained PIL and to manage dependencies. 2. I have a *python-pillow* package with no dependencies and no maintainer (@5b3923d6a5bb). *Google python-pillow* gives almost no result... 3. Looks like in testing/unstable, everything as changed : 3.1. There is a *pillow* <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/pillow> source package ; 3.2. python-pil <https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-pil> - which actually is Pillow - is the package to install instead of python-imaging 3.3 python-imaging <https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-imaging> is now a compatibility package between PIL and Pillow (to fix the *import Image // from PIL import Image* incompat). Thanks in advance for any clarification. $ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list # puppet managed # serveur puppetmaster01 # distrib wheezy deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free $ aptitude show python-pillow Paquet : python-pillow Nouveau: oui État: non installé Automatiquement installé: non Version : 2.3.1 Priorité : supplémentaire Section : default Responsable : <@5b3923d6a5bb> Architecture : amd64 Taille décompressée : 2 685 k Description : Python Imaging Library (Fork) Site : http://python-imaging.github.io/ --- Stanislas
