Oh I think I figured out what happened. I didn't install the new -whl which is whats used in the virtualenv.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri Nov 21 2014 at 5:44:00 PM Stefano Rivera <<a href="mailto:stefanor@debian.org">stefanor@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Jack (2014.11.18_11:53:09_+0200)<br>
> 1.5.6-3 doesn't seem to be working over here even on a fresh virtualenv<br>
<br>
Works for me:<br>
<br>
$ cat test.sh<br>
#!/bin/sh<br>
virtualenv ve<br>
. ve/bin/activate<br>
pip install pillow<br>
pip uninstall pillow<br>
<br>
$ ./test.sh<br>
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python2<br>
New python executable in ve/bin/python2<br>
Not overwriting existing python script ve/bin/python (you must use ve/bin/python2)<br>
Installing setuptools, pip...done.<br>
Downloading/unpacking pillow<br>
  Downloading Pillow-2.6.1.tar.gz (7.3MB): 7.3MB downloaded<br>
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/ve/build/pillow/<u></u>setup.py) egg_info for package pillow<br>
...<br>
Successfully installed pillow<br>
Cleaning up...<br>
Uninstalling Pillow:<br>
  /tmp/ve/bin/pilconvert.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/bin/pildriver.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/bin/pilfile.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/bin/pilfont.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/bin/pilprint.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/lib/python2.7/site-<u></u>packages/PIL/BdfFontFile.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/lib/python2.7/site-<u></u>packages/PIL/BdfFontFile.pyc<br>
...<br>
  /tmp/ve/lib/python2.7/site-<u></u>packages/PIL/_util.py<br>
  /tmp/ve/lib/python2.7/site-<u></u>packages/PIL/_util.pyc<br>
  /tmp/ve/lib/python2.7/site-<u></u>packages/Pillow-2.6.1-py2.7.<u></u>egg-info<br>
Proceed (y/n)? y<br>
  Successfully uninstalled Pillow<br>
<br>
$ dpkg -l python-virtualenv python-pip python-pip-whl<br>
Desired=Unknown/Install/<u></u>Remove/Purge/Hold<br>
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/<u></u>Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/<u></u>trig-aWait/Trig-pend<br>
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)<br>
||/ Name                              Version               Architecture          Description<br>
+++-==========================<u></u>=======-=====================-<u></u>=====================-========<u></u>==============================<u></u>==============================<u></u>===<br>
ii  python-pip                        1.5.6-3               all                   alternative Python package installer<br>
ii  python-pip-whl                    1.5.6-3               all                   alternative Python package installer<br>
ii  python-virtualenv                 1.11.6+ds-1           all                   Python virtual environment creator<br>
<br>
SR<br>
<br>
--<br>
Stefano Rivera<br>
  <a href="http://tumbleweed.org.za/" target="_blank">http://tumbleweed.org.za/</a><br>
  +1 415 683 3272<br>
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