[Answer]-Django 1.6: The _imagingft C module is not installed

I solved the above error by installing freetype and freetype2 devel packages before running pip install Pillow.

Worked on SuSE Linux.

Works for me in ubuntu 14.04:

pip uninstall pil

or(depends what you are using)

 pip uninstall pillow

then

sudo apt-get update

apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libxft-dev  libjpeg62  libjpeg-devel

in the output, make sure the installation was complete

And finnaly

pip install pil

or

pip install pillow