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

Linux installation steps for Docker users:

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y --fix-missing curl autoconf libtool automake
RUN curl -L https://github.com/libspatialindex/libspatialindex/archive/1.8.5.tar.gz | tar -xz
RUN cd libspatialindex-1.8.5 && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install && ldconfig