why can't I import geopandas?

Question

My only line of code is

import geopandas

and it gives me the error

OSError: Could not find libspatialindex_c library file
         


        

Answer 1

If you are using MacOS, it's as simple as follow:

brew install spatialindex
pip install rtree

If you are working on linux environment you have to build this from source:

1. Install spatialindex

   curl -L https://github.com/libspatialindex/libspatialindex/archive/1.8.5.tar.gz | tar xz
   cd libspatialindex-1.8.5/
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install
   sudo ldconfig
   

2. install rtree: pip install rtree