As the above posts say, it's almost certainly that you don't have libjpeg installed. How did you install
Imager? Taking a quick glance at the
Makefile, it looks like it shouldn't have let you install it w/o libjpeg installed.
Obligatory TMTOWTDI:
Image::Magick is a popular package for manipulating with images (it also will need libjpeg i believe).