When I try to install geoplot in either my Linux box or windows box the terminal either gets hung up or I get an error: unable to determine GEOS version . I checked geos version in anaconda and it states I have GEOS 3.8.
I’ve tried both pip install geoplot and the line provided on the conda-forge site for geoplot conda install -c conda-forge geoplotlib .
I’ve searched for a solution for the past couple hours, but no avail.
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Answer
This is a frequent issue faced by most of the developers trying to install GEOS, Cartopy and Proj.
It happens to be that there are certain packages that need to exist before installing GEOS or Cartopy. A quick look at your screenshot of the error, you can try out the following…
sudo apt-get install libproj-dev proj-data proj-bin sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev sudo pip install cython sudo pip install cartopy sudo apt install python3-dev
An alternative solution in case above does not work for you, the reason could be of a mixed channel problem in Anaconda, to resolve that, issue following commands as root (admin)
conda config --set channel_priority strict
edit the ~/.condarc file which will look like this after the edit:
channel_priority: strict channels: - conda-forge - defaults
Use the root user to install it because it will have to access places where your standard user does not have access.
conda install geoplot -c conda-forge