PIL error: IOError: decoder jpeg not available

We have used PIL since over a year now in our windows XP
desktops,
with no problem at all. The only functionality we use is the
one
related to thumbnail creation.

Now we are making a deploy of the whole system we develop to
a
different operating system.. with the following
configuration:
Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-54
Python 2.4.3
PIL 1.1.5

The same combination of python and PIL versions works great
in
windows, but when we moved to Linux RedHat, we keep getting
the error
"decoder jpeg not available". We went through
all the README file that
comes with PIL and we make sure libjpeg6b was installed, as
well as
the zlib.

When PIL is installed it says:
*** TKINTER support not available
--- JPEG support ok
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
*** FREETYPE2 support not available

But a second after PIL installation, we run selftest.py and
it keeps
saying the error "decoder jpeg not available".
As a result, when we
test our program, for gif, bmp and tif files the create
thumbnails
perfectly; for jpg and png we canīt.

Any help will be extremmely appreciated.... We've been
dealing with
this problem for quite a while now...

Best Regards,
Niurka
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Niurka Perez wrote:

> When PIL is installed it says:
> *** TKINTER support not available
> --- JPEG support ok
> --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
> *** FREETYPE2 support not available
> 
> But a second after PIL installation, we run selftest.py
and it keeps
> saying the error "decoder jpeg not
available". As a result, when we
> test our program, for gif, bmp and tif files the create
thumbnails
> perfectly; for jpg and png we canīt.

quoting myself from a message posted only a few days ago:

     try running Python with the -v (or -vv) option, to see
if it really
     picks up the _imaging module you built.

      $ python -vv -c "import _imaging"

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