Install Shapely: OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

Question

I have to install Shapely package (http://toblerity.org/shapely/project.html#installation). But when I am using:

pip install Shapely 

I am getting this error:

Collecting Shapely   Using cached Shapely-1.5.17.tar.gz     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>       File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\setup.py", line 38, in <module>         from shapely._buildcfg import geos_version_string, geos_version, \       File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\shapely\_buildcfg.py", line 200, in <module>         lgeos = CDLL("geos.dll")       File "C:\Users\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 344, in __init__         self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)     OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found      ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\ 

And, when I am using:

conda install shapely 

I am getting this error:

Fetching package metadata ...........   PackageNotFoundError: Package not found: Conda could not find ' 

I am using Python 3.6.0 (Anaconda3) on Windows 10 (64-bit).

Please help. (nothing works)

Answer 1

Download WHL file using http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely

Install:

python -m pip install Shapely-1.5.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl 

Ubuntu:

pip install shapely==1.6b2