Server configuring for PIL

sudo pip uninstall pil
sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging 
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/libz.so 
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/libjpeg.so 
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so
sudo pip install pil 

 

If last command fails then

cd /usr/include
sudo ln -s freetype2 freetype
sudo pip install PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL