Installing geopandas on Python 2.6

Question

This is in continuation with my earlier question Geospatial Analytics in Python

I started a new question to keep the 2 issues logically separate.

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Answer 1

On Linux Mint, Python 2.7.10 (Anaconda):

sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
pip install geopandas

Successfully installed descartes-1.0.1 fiona-1.6.2 geopandas-0.1.1 pyproj-1.9.4

I would recommend moving to 2.7.10. The two development libraries were all that I needed on my system. It seems that you are likely missing libgdal-dev.