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Uninstall the preinstalled PIL

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I would like to install Pillow, but according to the Pillow's documentation, I must remove PIL first, ~~which seems to have come preinstalled in Ubuntu 13.10.~~

What's the best way to do that?

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answered 2 Years ago wheance · Accepted Answer

The easiest way to uninstall pil is using pip:

sudo pip uninstall pil

and then install pillow using pip:

sudo pip install pillow

(see here for installing pip)