in reply to How to get jpeg support in Imager?

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).