Peter, Can you share the name of the library on the Fedora distro?
thx, gerry rodman http://www.gerryrodman.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for that tip > > Following a dialogue in that discussion group it is now working. The > problem was that I didn't have the right jpeg library installed > (although what I had was enough to show jpegs in gThumb, GIMP and the > Gnome and KDE desktops so I don't understand why it wasn't). I had to > also install a jpeg development library, which fortunately was > available on my Fedora Core 3 installation disc. > > A final glitch was that the previous broken build interfered with the > linking of PIL to the libraries. I went for overkill, and deleted all > the PIL installation and site-packages directories, then reinstalled > from the original tarball. This gave a curious glitch, in that the > first time I ran it it failed to load Tkinter with some obscure error > message, but on a retry everything was fine. This worries me slightly, > as I don't know what happened and there is always a chance it could > happen again, but until it does I can't investigate it. > > Slightly off topic, but I think my experience here is typical of any > installation on a Linux system, and illustrates why, despite huge > improvements over the last few years, Linux is not yet really suitable > for non expert use. > > Thanks to everyone who's helped me over the last few months. > > Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
