how to successfully install pyproj and geopandas?

Question

I have tried to install geopandas via I python by running !pip install geopandas, but this fails with "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 and then Path to long directory. I read online that pyproj is required for geopandas and also tried to install it however no luck, similar error. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Oh by the way, if this helps, I was able to install shapely, fiona, and Descartes using this method.

Answer 1

Thanks to the conda-forge community, geopandas is actually pretty easy to install on all platforms using the conda package manager (or: its dependencies, as this is the difficulty).

If you have conda, it is just:

conda install -c conda-forge geopandas 

To install conda, you can install the Anaconda python distribution or miniconda: http://conda.pydata.org/docs/download.html

See the GeoPandas docs for more details, specifically on how to create a new environment with GeoPandas installed with settings to ensure this always works: https://geopandas.org/install.html#creating-a-new-environment

Answer 2

Getting to work geopandas is unfortuntaly not easy, the problem is that the dependencies are partly not working and you have to use older versions of Fiona and GDAL. The following packages work stable together:

GDAL: 1.11.2 Fiona: 1.6.0 Geopandas: 0.1.0.dev- 

To install on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.2/gdal-1.11.2.tar.gz tar xvfz gdal-1.11.2.tar.gz cd gdal-1.11.2 ./configure --with-python make sudo make install 

In addition, some Linux distributions require the shared library cache to be updated after install:

sudo ldconfig 

Fiona and geopandas can be installed classic by:

sudo pip install Fiona==1.6.0 sudo pip install geopandas 

Under windows

As @Marcus Williams states:

Download Fiona and GDAL Windows Binaries corresponding your python environment (32, 64bit and 2.7 3.3 etc. (from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) and go in cmd with cd to directory where downloaded files are and install the .whl files using the command

pip install filename.whl 

Finally:

pip install geopandas