Install gdal2tiles inside conda environment

Question

I need to use gdal2tiles with Anaconda 3 on Ubuntu 18.04. I've created the environment using:

conda create --name gisenv python=3.6

I've installed GDAL with:

conda install gdal

After this I've created a simple python script import gdal2tiles but I see this error message:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gdal2tiles'

I thought that using conda install gdal2tiles would solve the problem but I see this message:

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve. Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

• gdal2tiles

Current channels:

• https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
• https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
• https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
• https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch

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How I can solve?

Answer 1

The python module gdal2tiles is not in the path by default

I'm able to import it using

conda create --name gisenv python=3.6
conda activate gisenv
conda install gdal

Then, running the following in python does work

import os
import sys

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ['CONDA_PREFIX'], 'bin'))
import gdal2tiles

I'm surprised you don't use the command line gdal2tiles.py instead of trying to run it through Python. Curious about your use case.