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marianosimone / epub-thumbnailer

Script to extract the cover of an epub book and create a thumbnail for it
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Pillow might need to be installed globally #40

Closed greendost closed 1 year ago

greendost commented 2 years ago

Just a minor note - I think the thumbnailer requires a global installation of Pillow, instead of at the user level.

sudo python3 install.py install

results in the following error

Required dependencies:
    Python Imaging Library .......
    ... Not found

After I installed Pillow globally sudo pip3 install Pillow

Then I could run the install script successfully, and now it's working. Installing packages globally doesn't appear to be a common Python practice from what I could find, but maybe it's needed in certain situations like here. Posting this in case it helps others.

Thanks for developing this - thumbnails make a big difference!

marianosimone commented 2 years ago

Thanks for reporting!

This is the first time I hear about problems with this. Would you mind giving more information about your distribution and version?

The installation instructions are vague on purpose, as it's hard to give exact instructions for all combinations of distributions, versions, and personal preferences:

install it with pip install Pillow or with package manager from your distro

greendost commented 2 years ago

Sure, I am running Linux PopOs 22.04, which I think is based on Ubuntu. I was not able to install it with apt-get, which probably would have worked too; perhaps it's no longer in the default repositories.

marianosimone commented 1 year ago

Thanks! I just added a note about this in the README