Hi, I previously installed basemap by using the yum command. This installed
version 0.99.4. I want to install the latest version so I can use shaded
relief etc. This may be more of a linux problem but as I am more familiar
with python than linux I thought someone here may be able to help.
Following the website instructions (
http://matplotlib.github.com/basemap/users/installing.html) I downloaded
the latest version and untarred it. Then in the basemap directory (which
contains geos-3.2.0) I try to set the environment variable GEOS_DIR to
point to the location of libgeos_c and geos_c.h.
I use the find command to locate the files,
*find / -name geos_c.h* returns the location of that file as *
/usr/lib/basemap-1.0.1/geos-3.2.0/capi/geos_c.h*
and
*find / -name libgeos**
returns
*/libgeos_c_la-geos_c.Plo
/usr/lib/libgeos-3.3.1.so
/usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.7.1
/usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1*
so I set GEOS_DIR to /usr/lib (not sure if this is correct).
I then cd to the basemap directory and run,
python setup.py install
[davcra@David basemap-1.0.1]$ sudo python setup.py install
[sudo] password for davcra:
checking for GEOS lib in /root ....
checking for GEOS lib in /usr ....
checking for GEOS lib in /usr/local ....
checking for GEOS lib in /sw ....
checking for GEOS lib in /opt ....
checking for GEOS lib in /opt/local ....
Can't find geos library . Please set the
environment variable GEOS_DIR to point to the location
where geos is installed (for example, if geos_c.h
is in /usr/local/include, and libgeos_c is in /usr/local/lib,
set GEOS_DIR to /usr/local), or edit the setup.py script
manually and set the variable GEOS_dir (right after the line
that says "set GEOS_dir manually here".
The problem seems to be with GEOS_DIR but I am not sure what I should set
it to.
Thanks
D
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