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A.Sevi
A.Sevi

Reputation: 186

I can't install basemap package

I tried to work with Basemap packages in Python 3.x but, when I try to install the packages in my IDE Pycharm, it gives me the following error:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Basemap (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for Basemap
You are using pip version 10.0.1, however version 19.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Anyone knows how can I do to install that packages correctly?

(Python 3.x, Pycharm, Windows 10)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10919

Answers (5)

Mastercrier
Mastercrier

Reputation: 1

Have you tried closing all folders, editors or other functions that are currently using python?

I legit used 8 hours trying to fix this after an uninstall, where it had previously worked using pip. Writing "pip install basemap" worked when I closed everything (including jupyterlab, which has never been a problem with any other packages).

Upvotes: 0

Ana-Maria
Ana-Maria

Reputation: 51

You can read on their github that the package was deprecated and they recommended to use cartopy instead:

Source: https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap

⚠️ Warning: this package is being deprecated in favour of cartopy.

Upvotes: 5

rutvik
rutvik

Reputation: 23

I also ran into a similar problem and the above two solutions did not work for me. And as you can see here https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook/issues/72#issuecomment-301008464 It is no longer possible to install it via pip, rather try this:

conda install -c conda-forge basemap

Upvotes: 2

Clarmy Lee
Clarmy Lee

Reputation: 140

You can install basemap library easily by conda. First of all, you must install conda, then you can create a virtual environment by conda create -n bm python=3.6 (you can use any word you like to replace bm) and activate it by conda activate bm . When command line starts with (bm), you can run conda install basemap to automatically install the library. After that, usually you can use basemap in your python code.
Good luck.

Upvotes: 0

Nipun Thennakoon
Nipun Thennakoon

Reputation: 3744

You can try to install basemap using precompiled windows binaries.

  1. Download the basemap whl file that is most applicable to you from here.
  2. Run pip install path_to_the_downloaded_whl on pycharm terminal.

Upvotes: 0

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