#18374: ImageField not validating due to missing libraries
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Reporter: fabian@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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IMHO, it is worth to be mentioned in the documentation that `libjpeg` must
be available on the system PRIOR to PIL being installed.
Else, validating a form with an `ImageField` will fail with `corrupt
image` error, due to `django/forms/fields.py` plays down the Exception in
line 592, which most probably is `IOError: "decoder jpeg not available"`
On a Mac, it can be easily downloaded on
http://ethan.tira-thompson.com/Mac_OS_X_Ports.html
On most Linux distributions, `libjpeg-dev` is available in the
repositories.
Afterwards, PIL must be re-compiled and -installed in order to let it know
about it.
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