Issues installing Geopandas

Question

I tried pip install geopandas

When I run that, I get this error:

Collecting geopandas
  Using cached geopandas-0.8.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (962 kB)
Collecting pyproj>=2.2.0
  Using cached pyproj-2.6.1.post1-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl (17.2 MB)
Requirement already satisfied: pandas>=0.23.0 in c:\users\ryans\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from geopandas) (1.0.1)
Collecting fiona
  Using cached Fiona-1.8.17.tar.gz (1.3 MB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'C:\Users\ryans\anaconda3\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\ryans\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-cw2z1439\\fiona\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\ryans\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-cw2z1439\\fiona\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\ryans\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-cw2z1439\fiona\pip-egg-info'
         cwd: C:\Users\ryans\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-cw2z1439\fiona\
    Complete output (1 lines):
    A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable.
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

I also tried conda install -c conda-forge geopandas

In this case, everything runs fine, but when I try to run this one-liner:

import geopandas as gpd

I get this result:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'geopandas'

I'm guessing that there is some kind of conflict with some other library that is installed, but it's just a guess, and I don't know for sure what the problem is. How can I get this thing to work? Thanks!!

Answer 1

You can try it

$ conda install -c anaconda pip
$ pip install geopandas
$ pip install Fiona

Answer 2

For me this installation worked (even without Anaconda). Get the GDAL package from here (Gohlke)

Install it with pip install GDAL_..._.whl

Upon installing the same error will occur, but no problem! Go to the system environment variables and create a new system variable and name it GDAL_VERSION and give it the value of the package version. Looks like this:

Then try to install GDAL again and it will work (maybe you need to restart the console). Then install geopandas with pip install geopandas and everything should work.