I would like to install Pillow, but according to the Pillow's documentation, I must remove PIL first, which seems to have come preinstalled in Ubuntu 13.10.

What's the best way to do that?

2 Answers

The easiest way to uninstall pil is using pip:

sudo pip uninstall pil

and then install pillow using pip:

sudo pip install pillow

(see here for installing pip)

2

Try the following:

Completely remove PIL/pillow (2.7 & 3.5):

$ sudo -H pip uninstall pillow
-> Successfully uninstalled Pillow-3.1.2
$ sudo -H pip3 uninstall pillow
-> Cannot uninstall requirement pillow, not installed

Completely remove pip & pip3:

$ which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip
$ /usr/local/bin/pip uninstall pip
$ sudo apt-get remove python-pip 

Remove Egg (from easy_install):

Install pip & pip3:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ sudo easy_install pip <- Installs to different directory (egg)
$ sudo easy_install pip3 <- Installs to different directory (egg)

Install pillow (2.7 & 3.5):

sudo -H pip3 install pillow
-> Installed Pillow-4.1.1-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
sudo -H pip install pillow
-> Requirement already satisfied
$ sudo easy_install Pillow
Searching for Pillow
Best match: Pillow 4.1.1
Adding Pillow 4.1.1 to easy-install.pth file
Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Processing dependencies for Pillow
Finished processing dependencies for Pillow
$ sudo pip3 install Pillow
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

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