configure: error: jpeglib.h not found

Fix the "configure: error: jpeglib.h not found" error while compiling PHP. Find out how to install the missing libraries on Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS.

While compiling PHP, we may run into several errors, mainly resulting from missing developer libraries; here's one of them:

configure: error: jpeglib.h not found.

To eliminate the above error, we install the following package:

  • Debian / Ubuntu : aptitude install libjpeg8-dev (32/64 bit)
  • RedHat / CentOS / Fedora : yum install libjpeg-devel.x86_64 (64 bit) / yum install libjpeg-devel (32 bit)