My only line of code is
import geopandas
and it gives me the error
OSError: Could not find libspatialindex_c library file
User DYZ provided the correct answer in the comments.
You need to install spatialindex.
This question should be set to answered so it is not misleading
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:
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
pip install rtree
I had the same issue while working in Linux Subsystem at Windows 10 (speaking about this). What helped was installing the version for developers using apt
. Namely:
sudo apt install libspatialindex-dev
did the job.
I did not need to work with make
.
edit: Nice to see my answer has been upvoted so many times; in the time of writing it, however, this was not the most popular answer and it was preceeded by the other answers that suggested using make
. This is why I am referring to this command; and I think the other answers are worth reading anyway.
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