Michael Hearne wrote:
> Jeff - Thanks, that seemed to solve _that_ problem. However, after
> going through the build process (again, successfully), I get the
> following when trying to import Basemap:
>
> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
> File
> "/usr/local/epd/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py",
>
> line 43, in
> import _geoslib, netcdftime
> ImportError: libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
>
> I had to compile geos because this version of Basemap didn't seem to
> work with the version of geos that EPD uses. I built GEOS in a local
> home directory. Do I need to build it in a global location (like
> /usr/local)?
>
> --Mike
Mike: Sounds like you need to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add the
directory where you installed libgeos.
-Jeff
> On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
>> Michael Hearne wrote:
>>> I just built matplotlib and basemap from source on a RHEL system,
>>> with EPD as my base Python installation.
>>>
>>> The build procedure for matplotlib was fairly straightforward, as
>>> was basemap (once I read Jeff's documentation on installing).
>>>
>>> However, once I try to import basemap, I get an error about dbflib
>>> (ipython session below):
>>>
>>
>> Mike: Try editing setup.cfg and changing
>>
>> pyshapelib = True
>>
>> It's set to 'auto' by default. I bet it's detecting an existing
>> pyshapelib install, but then can find all the parts of it that it needs.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>> In [1]: from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
>>> ---
>>>
>>> ImportError Traceback (most recent
>>> call last)
>>>
>>> /home/shake/losspager/1.15/ in ()
>>>
>>> /usr/local/epd/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/
>>> __init__.py in ()
>>> 36 from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
>>> 37 from matplotlib.transforms import Bbox
>>> ---> 38 import pyproj, sys, os, math, dbflib
>>> 39 from proj import Proj
>>> 40 import numpy as np
>>>
>>> ImportError: No module named dbflib
>>>
>>> Where is dbflib supposed to be?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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