Error installing GeoPandas?

Question

Can someone help me with this error concerning installation of geopandas even after installing 'shapely'?

Error: cwd: C:\Users\JASHVA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-ccci6ax2\fiona\ Complete output (1 lines): A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable. ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check th e logs for full command output.

Answer 1

The problem is with fiona not with shapely, try to install it separately not as a dependence of geopandas

Download the right version for your Python version (the "cpXY" part of the filenames) from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs:

• Fiona: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#fiona
• GDAL: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal

Then install it using pip install path/to/gdal.whl and pip install path/to/fiona.whl

And finally you can install geopandas using pip install geopandas

Answer 2

Use conda install -c conda-forge geopandas.

Answer 3

I have Windows 10 and I have same problem.

When I try first time install fiona with top-answer in topic (via .whl) I got error, but second time was successful (mb cython was need, I don't know). So my tries to install first time fiona below.

I wanted to install geopandas, but before it I had to install Fiona. And this was my solution:

1. Download binary gdal from here. I choosed this: release-1911-x64-gdal-2-4-4-mapserver-7-4-3.

   1.1. You need to download 1 zip-file: release-1911-x64-gdal-2-4-4-mapserver-7-4-3-libs.zip

   1.2. Extract this to local path, e.g. "C:\\Users\\Jack\\Gdal"

2. Download Fiona from master. You can download zip now

3. Unpacking Fiona-master.zip, e.g. "C:\\Users\\Jack\\Fiona-master"

4. Open CMD, open dir "Fiona-master": chdir "C:\\Users\\Jack\\Fiona-master" and run this (with your paths):

   python setup.py build_ext -I"<PATH_TO_GDAL_INCLUDE_DIR>" -lgdal_i -L"<PATH_TO_GDAL_LIB_DIR>" install --gdalversion 2.1

   In my case:

   python setup.py build_ext -I"C:\\Users\\Jack\\Gdal\\include" -lgdal_i -L"C:\\Users\\Vasilev_EN\\Downloads\\Gdal\\lib" install --gdalversion 2.1

5. I didn't have cython and got error, so: pip install cython

6. Again try run long string from (4)

7. After success: pip install geopandas worked fine

Answer 4

I was running into the same issue but have been able to get it properly installed using a combination of conda and pip installs.

1. Instal fiona using conda (conda install fiona)
2. Install geopandas using pip (pip install geopandas)