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Installing pyodbc is straight forward but if  getting     "error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1"  when installing pyodbc, make sure you have installed  requirements  as below. sudo apt-get install unixODBC-dev g++ pip install pyodbc

Install required packages sudo apt-get install libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev python-dev Fixing the lib path sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib Install the PIL pip install pil If getting "ImportError: No module named PIL" on importing Image module also try from PIL import Image If not using virtualenv "$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging" will also install pil for the system.