Unable to install gdal in python 3.6.1 in macos Sierra

Question

I was trying to install gdal in python 3.6.1, but getting the following error. How to overcome this?

bibinwilson ~ $ pip3 install gdal

Collecting gdal   Downloading GDAL-2.2.1.tar.gz (475kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 481kB 397kB/s 
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 131, in fetch_config
    p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py",
line 707, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py",
  line 1326, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 179, in get_gdal_config
    return fetch_config(option, gdal_config = self.gdal_config)
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 135, in fetch_config
    raise gdal_config_error(e)
__main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 131, in fetch_config
    p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py",
line 707, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py",
line 1326, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 339, in <module>
    **extra )
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py",
line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 955, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 974, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py",
line 279, in run
    self.find_sources()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py",
line 306, in find_sources
    mm.run()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py",
line 533, in run
    self.add_defaults()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py",
line 562, in add_defaults
    sdist.add_defaults(self)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py",
line 36, in add_defaults
    self._add_defaults_ext()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py",
line 119, in _add_defaults_ext
    build_ext = self.get_finalized_command('build_ext')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py",
line 299, in get_finalized_command
    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py",
line 107, in ensure_finalized
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 214, in finalize_options
    self.gdaldir = self.get_gdal_config('prefix')
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 188, in get_gdal_config
    return fetch_config(option)
  File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py",
line 135, in fetch_config
    raise gdal_config_error(e)
__main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'

---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/

Answer 1

This simple procedure seemed to work for me on MAC sierra, python 3.6, GDAL 2.2.3

1) Install GDAL framework using dmg installer for MAC [GDAL MAC Frameworks]: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

2) Add gdal-config folder to your path and get your version:

$ export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/2.2/Programs:$PATH

$ gdal-config --version

3) Use pip to install the version reported by gdal-config --version:

$ pip install gdal==2.2.3

Step 1 Seems to set up the python site-packages under its install framework folders and I think you could copy them to your python site-packages. But better to use pip install.

Answer 2

I had this error and installing GDAL through Homebrew fixed this for me. Installing the the binaries for GDAL didn't correct the error but once I installed through brew it was resolved.

brew install gdal

seems like the same issue as here: Python GDAL: pip install --no-install GDAL fails

If you've already installed the binaries (like I had) then this answer worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44051123/3969685