PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

[David C. Ullrich]

Decided to try to install PIL on my Mac (OS X.5).

I know nothing about installing programs on Linux,
nothing about building C programs, nothing about
installing libraries, nothing about "fink", nothing
about anything. Please insert question marks after
every sentence:

I saw a "BUILDME" with instructions "for lazy programmers".
I did that. It seems that everything worked except a
jpg library is missing.

I read that I need to install libjpeg. I read that on OS X
this is "usually" done using fink. Great:

(i) The idea of installing fink scares me, for no reason
I could name. There's no way that's going to confuse the
rest of Darwin, right?

(ii) When I look at the fink website I see a list of
supported libraries, not including libjpeg.

I hate messing with things that I don't understand at _all_...

Thanks for any advice or comments.

DU.

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PIL 1.1.6 BUILD SUMMARY
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version       1.1.6
platform      darwin 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17)
              [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)]
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--- TKINTER support ok
*** JPEG support not available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
--- FREETYPE2 support ok
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To add a missing option, make sure you have the required
library, and set the corresponding ROOT variable in the
setup.py script.

To check the build, run the selftest.py script.
0-1d-4f-fc-28-d:Imaging-1.1.6 dullric$ python selftest.py
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Failure in example: _info(Image.open("Images/lena.jpg"))
from line #24 of selftest.testimage
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./doctest.py", line 499, in _run_examples_inner
    exec compile(source, "<string>", "single") in globs
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "./selftest.py", line 22, in _info
    im.load()
  File "PIL/ImageFile.py", line 180, in load
    d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig)
  File "PIL/Image.py", line 375, in _getdecoder
    raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name)
IOError: decoder jpeg not available
1 items had failures:
   1 of  57 in selftest.testimage
***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
*** 1 tests of 57 failed.

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David C. Ullrich