Having trouble installing GDAL for python
On Windows the easiest way to install GDAL is to use pre-built binaries unless you have special needs that require building GDAL from source. Apart from conda, as mentioned by @Mike Müller, there are three common sources for GDAL Windows binaries (with Python bindings):
- Gohlke Pythonlibs
- GISinternals
- OSGEO4W
To install GDAL on windows, you need to follow the below-mentioned step: -
- You need to install GDAL wheel file using the link https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal . After visiting this link, download this file named "GDAL‑3.0.4‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl" since it worked for me and then use the command "pip install c:\Users........\GDAL‑3.0.4‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl" to successfully install GDAL which is the requirement of Geopandas.
NOTE: If the above-mentioned wheel file doesn't work for you, then try using alternate wheel files.
Probably the easiest way to install such kind of libraries is conda. Get and install Miniconda as user, not root. Now, create a new environment and install gdal into it:
conda create -n gdal_test python=3.5
activate gdal_test
conda install gdal
You need to stay inside this shell window. i.e. th prompt should like this (gdal_test). Start Python:
python
>>> import gdal
Note: On Linux and Mac OS X use source activate gdal_test.
To find out what versions of gdal are available, type:
conda search gdal
An output like this:
gdal
....
2.0.0 np110py34_0 defaults
means gdal 2.0.0 is available for Python 3.4 and needs NumPy 1.10.