why can't I import geopandas?

python gis geopandas
jrowley picture jrowley · Aug 5, 2017 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

My only line of code is 

import geopandas

and it gives me the error 

OSError: Could not find libspatialindex_c library file

has anyone encountered this before? my script was working just fine until this error came up.

**Note that rtree module not found was an issue fisrt, and upon installation I received the above error instead.

Answer

Vojta F picture Vojta F · Sep 3, 2018

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.

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