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Huey
Huey

Reputation: 2834

Shapely OSError: Could not find lib c or load any of its variants []

I'm just trying to use the demo code. I run the following in Jupyter Notebook:

from shapely.geometry import shape

Which gives me the following:

OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-cf5b4d0962ea> in <module>()
----> 1 from shapely.geometry import shape

/Users/hkwik/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/shapely/geometry/__init__.py in <module>()
      2 """
      3 
----> 4 from .base import CAP_STYLE, JOIN_STYLE
      5 from .geo import box, shape, asShape, mapping
      6 from .point import Point, asPoint

/Users/hkwik/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/shapely/geometry/base.py in <module>()
      7 from ctypes import pointer, c_size_t, c_char_p, c_void_p
      8 
----> 9 from shapely.coords import CoordinateSequence
     10 from shapely.ftools import wraps
     11 from shapely.geos import lgeos, ReadingError

/Users/hkwik/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/shapely/coords.py in <module>()
      6 from ctypes import byref, c_double, c_uint
      7 
----> 8 from shapely.geos import lgeos
      9 from shapely.topology import Validating
     10 

/Users/hkwik/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/shapely/geos.py in <module>()
     81         _lgeos = load_dll('geos_c', fallbacks=alt_paths)
     82 
---> 83     free = load_dll('c').free
     84     free.argtypes = [c_void_p]
     85     free.restype = None

/Users/hkwik/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/shapely/geos.py in load_dll(libname, fallbacks, mode)
     59         raise OSError(
     60             "Could not find lib {0} or load any of its variants {1}.".format(
---> 61                 libname, fallbacks or []))
     62 
     63 _lgeos = None

OSError: Could not find lib c or load any of its variants [].

However, if I run from the interpreter, everything is fine.

Any idea what's going on?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 27399

Answers (9)

guesswho
guesswho

Reputation: 532

For macOS users:

brew install geos
pip3 install shapely --upgrade

Upvotes: 3

BonieSV
BonieSV

Reputation: 69

Try this may help you:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall shapely

Upvotes: 5

Kannappan Sirchabesan
Kannappan Sirchabesan

Reputation: 1382

I had to do a conda update --all to fix this.

Upvotes: 1

dl.meteo
dl.meteo

Reputation: 1776

I had a very similar issue running code in aws lambda with the error message:

 OSError: Could not find lib c or load any of its variants ['libc.musl-x86_64.so.1'].

I added musl-dev to my container installation and adapted the symlink:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-musl/libc.so /lib/libc.musl-x86_64.so.1

Upvotes: 0

jmg
jmg

Reputation: 9

For me, only works after installing Shapely from the shapely lib and executing the following command from Anaconda Prompt:

pip install Shapely-1.7.1-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl --force-reinstall

This forces a re-install of shapely.

Upvotes: 1

Zac
Zac

Reputation: 730

I simply uninstalled Shapely and re-installed it to fix the issue.

python -m pip uninstall shapely

python -m pip install shapely

Upvotes: 38

hckrman
hckrman

Reputation: 136

@user2977865 and @anothernode are correct in their approach but it may not work for everyone. By default, shapely will look for libraries in the DYLD_PATH.

I had it set to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/:/usr/local/mysql/lib/

But these libraries are placed in /usr/lib.

So I had to modify it as follows: 

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/:/usr/local/mysql/lib/

Bonus note: Ensure that your environment variables have been set by restarting terminal and clearing cache of any IDEs you might be using.

Upvotes: 0

eddd
eddd

Reputation: 1765

The way I fixed it:

apk add geos libc-dev musl-dev
pip install Shapely

Upvotes: 1

user2977865
user2977865

Reputation: 111

You may try to reset the environment variable DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$(HOME)/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib

Source

Upvotes: 8

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