PIL (aka the Python Imaging Library) is used in many of the Carleton College Intro CS courses. This page contains installation instructions:

WINDOWS XP:

• The latest downloads of PIL for windows can be found at http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/.
• Download the current release: http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe
• Double click on the downloaded executable. And that will install PIL.

MAC OSX 10.4 (Tiger):

• PIL for the mac can be found at http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html
• Scroll half way down the page until you find PIL dmg, and download the current release: http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/dmg/PIL-1.1.6-py2.5-macosx10.4-2007-05-18.dmg
• double click the dmg, and follow the directions in the dmg to finish installing PIL.

MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard):

• PIL for 10.5 has not been packaged into a dmg yet so we will need to use the Terminal for this, to open Terminal go to Applications>Utilities and find terminal.
• Now if you have installed wget in the past you can type at the command prompt:
• • wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

• If you haven't installed wget just open a web browser and navigate to the following address and the file will automatically download.

• • http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
    

• At the command line type the following:

• • tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
    cd jpeg-6b/
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install-lib
    

  • • Note ./configure, make, and sudo make install-lib may take some time

• If you are able to use wget use it on the following address, if not just type into your browser as before:
• • http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

• At the command line type to finish your install:

• • tar zxvf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz 
    cd Imaging-1.1.6
    sudo python setup.py install
    

If you have any questions about installing PIL for Windows, Mac, or any other operating system, please contact Michael Tie (mtie@carleton.edu x4067)