If you don’t have pip, install it using: $ sudo apt-get install python-pip Let’s see how you can install PIL on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04. It has a lot of nice functionalities and it works well. Actually, people use Pillow now, which is a modern repackaged version of PIL.
Python Imaging Library (PIL) is one of most popular libraries that is used to process the image data. To do that, we need a Python package that can handle all the image manipulation. Let’s say you want to play around with images in Python.