I'm a newbie trying to install imagescanner-0.9-py2.6 in Spyder 2.7.6 running on Linux Peppermint 6, and am having problems installing the dependencies for PIL.
easy_install imagescanner-0.9-py2.6.egg fails with message:
"Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('PIL')
I've tried to install PIL using Synaptic Package Manager and also using command lines :
easy_install python image library, easy_install pillow, easy_install image, pip install image, and pip install pillow -U
But I still get the same error.
pip install PIL gives the error:
"No matching distribution found for PIL"
(I think) I've completely uninstalled PIL after each failed attempt.
From reading other postings it seems that there has been a similar problem with installing PIL for the last 6 years or so, and various workarounds have been proposed, but none of them seem simple or applicable to my situation. Maybe a more recent fix has subsequently become available but if so, I've been unable to find details of this.
As a newbie, what is the simplest way for me to get up and running with imagescanner in Python 2.7.6?
If there's no simple fix, would changing Spyder to a different Python distribution help resolve this problem; or is there some newer app which performs the same function as imagescanner which I could use instead to control and import images from a scanner using Python?
