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.
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.
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 rtreeLinux installation steps for Docker users:
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y --fix-missing curl autoconf libtool
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
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
