Failure to install Basemap on linux system

[YuHuang3019]

Hi all,

I am trying to install Basemap to python3.6.3 on a linux system(stampede2). My account is just a user account and I am not permitted to use command sudo. I created a virtual environment so that I could make modifications. I also set GEOS_DIR, PROJ_DIR to my /home/GEOS and /home/PROJ because the default directory was not permitted to modify.

I mainly followed two websites:
https://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/2b4p71/trouble_installing_basemap/
During the installation, there are warnings like below
warning: no files found matching 'README'
warning: no files found matching 'LICENSE_proj4'
warning: no files found matching 'LICENSE_pyshp'
warning: no files found matching 'lib/mpl_toolkits/basemap/pyproj.py'
warning: no files found matching 'lib/mpl_toolkits/basemap/shapefile.py'
writing manifest file 'lib/basemap.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
warning: sdist: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.rst, README.txt

When trying to use Basemap, I always have the problem of missing module _geoslib even though it seems that the basemap1.2.0 is installed. I tried to locate the path of the module and import with path clarified but I cannot find path too. I guess the missing of a few files caused this problem to occur but I have no idea how to fix it.

I am wondering whether you can help me to add the missing files. Or can anyone here give me a complete instruction about how to install Basemap correctly on a linux system?

Thanks!

[Mayson12381]

same issue

[GrandH2O]

same to me, can you help me? @YuHuang3019

[barronh]

FYI - I get the same error using python setup.py install, but it works if I use pip install .

[pesekon2]

FYI - I get the same error using python setup.py install, but it works if I use pip install .

The same worked for me. On Debian 10 with Python 3.7, it worked with normal python3 setup.py install, on CentOS 8 with Python 3.8 (otherwise the same versions of matplotlib, etc.), it worked only when installing using python3.8 -m pip install .

[Roland-Pfeiffer]

I have the same issue.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what do you mean with "if I use pip install", @barronh ?
Do you mean running
pip install setup.py
Thank you!

[molinav]

Hi @KaterFindus! It means that you have to run pip install . (with the dot at the end) from the folder in which the setup.py file resides.

[Roland-Pfeiffer]

Wow, thank you so much for the quick response, @molinav !
It works now, you're a life saver! :)

[molinav]

Precompiled wheels are available in PyPI since release 1.3.0. This means that you can now install directly using pip without the need of building the library yourself:

python -m pip install basemap

If you need the high-resolution data files, you have to install basemap-data-hires in addition:

python -m pip install basemap-data-hires

Hope this helps.