[Image-SIG] Installation Guide

[Steve Holden]

Online Support wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I'm in critical need to install Python Imaging Library on my 
> linux/cpanel server. I'm not very experienced and I almost always have 
> to use instalation guides. I have downloaded the software, unzipped it, 
> and now I think I just need to install it somehow. Are there files that 
> need to be modified first? I think there is a file called setup.py but 
> I'm not sure how I can run that file.
>  
> I would really appreciate your reply, or if you could point me to an 
> installation giude online for PIL
>  
> Best Regards,
> - Kevin
> 
By "unzipped" I presume you mean "untarred the .tgz file"? Just make 
sure your text files will have Linux line endings not windows (just in 
case: sorry of this seems obvious).

There should be a README file int eh top-level directory. Look for the 
section that starts

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Build instructions (all platforms)
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Or have you seen this and need more?

regards
  Steve
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