basemap is not found on pip for python3.4?

[guziy]

Hi:

I've recently tried to install basemap using pip on my fedora 23 in py3.4 virtual environment, but:

(py3.4) huziy at thinkpad in ~/Python/Projects/PyNotebooks on master*
$ pip install basemap
Collecting basemap
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement basemap (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for basemap
(py3.4) huziy at thinkpad in ~/Python/Projects/PyNotebooks on master*
$ python
Python 3.4.3 (default, Jun 29 2015, 12:16:01) 
[GCC 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Which is weird, since it worked OK before...

Maybe the versions should be specified in the setup.py?

Cheers

[tacaswell]

What do you mean by 'before'? Did it used to work with 3.4 and now it does not?

[guziy]

Yes: I've used it with python3.4 before ...

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[tacaswell]

Interesting. I am also seeing the same issue.

[jenshnielsen]

This is a duplicate of #198 Basemap is to large to be hosted on Pypi so the package is hosted externally and new versions of pip no longer allows that pr default.

[guziy]

@jenshnielsen:
so this stopped working for the recent pip?

$ pip3 install --allow-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap basemap
Collecting basemap
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement basemap (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for basemap

[jenshnielsen]

Im not sure someone may also have removed the links to sourceforge from Pypi

[aeroevan]

It looks like allow external was removed from recent versions of pip:
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/

Something like pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.0.7rel.tar.gz should work though.

[ghost]

Yes, I can't get PyCharm to install it either. :(

[danielsenhwong]

According to the changelog for v1.1.0, basemap might be coming back to pip.
https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/blob/master/Changelog
The 1.1.0 release appears to be imminent: #343

[ojdo]

Just as another voice getting an unhelpful response by pip after a sudo -H pip3 install basemap, repeating the solution (by @aeroevan) that worked for me:

sudo -H pip3 install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz

The --allow-external work-around only yielded red deprecation warnings. Beware of missing library dependencies, though: I had to install libgeos++-dev (found via this comment) in addition to the expected libgeos-dev.

[Kamik423]

I installed GEOS with pip3 install GEOS and then get this error

    Can't find geos library in standard locations ('/var/root', '/var/root/local', '/usr', '/usr/local', '/sw', '/opt', '/opt/local').
    Please install the corresponding packages using your
    systems software management system (e.g. for Debian Linux do:
    'apt-get install libgeos-3.3.3 libgeos-c1 libgeos-dev' and/or
    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".

when using

sudo -H pip3 install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz

so dependency management is still broken

[guziy]

@Kamik423:
You have to compile GEOS or install it using your software manager (smth like "sudo apt install libgeos-dev")... I do not think pip is able to install GEOS library.

Cheers

[Kamik423]

well, pip3 install GEOS does... something...

[guziy]

There is a geos python package in pip))

geos (0.2.1)                                                 - Map server to view, measure and print maps in a web browserand to display maps as an overlay in google earth.

Probably it installs it and not the C++ library you need.

Cheers

[Kamik423]

ok, got it to work on Mac:

brew install geos
sudo -H pip3 install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz

[adesorme]

@Kamik423
I tried your solution and it looked like it worked, but when I attempt to import I get the following error:

In [1]: from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-5e6824321d57> in <module>()
----> 1 from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py in <module>()
37 import numpy as np
38 import numpy.ma as ma
---> 39 import _geoslib
40 import functools
41

[mdrmuhaimin]

@adesorme
Perhaps pip and anaconda is creating a problem. I installed anaconda and it messes up my basemap and I had to reinstall it.

[mikkokotila]

The repo is currently more than 1gb which makes it hard to justify including it as a dependency (which is a shame given how valuable this package is).

Is there something that could be done about this?

[aeroevan]

The thing to do is upgrade to http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/ :)

[shaybensasson]

Just managed to install it on ubuntu on my py3 virtualenv:
sudo apt-get install libgeos-3.5.0 libgeos-c1v5 libgeos-dev
pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz

You should verify the latest versions and change the numbers accordingly

[softhearthaspower]

you can install anaconda in your linux, and change the project interpreter under "/anaconda/bin/python/", it works on my computer. Before that ,I have tried many methods but no sense.

[ShaharyarAhmed]

I installed on ubuntu 18 using following steps:

Step 1: update package listings
Step 2: install available/latest versions (type sudo apt-get install libgeos and hit tab to check which version is available)
Step 3: install package from archive

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgeos-3.6.2 libgeos-c1v5 libgeos-dev
pip3 install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz

[chaotic-enigma]

Not able to install Basemap in Fedora27 for python3

[GavinMoreYoung]

i am also see the same issue,i do not know how to do it

[GavinMoreYoung]

Enter websit https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, search Basemap and Pyproj package.