Issue installing shapely Python Package

Question

I am running python 3.6 on windows and am attempting to install Shapely using

pip install shapely==1.6b2

It is giving me the following errors

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Cameron\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-242ae_ih\shapely\

I have seen the other posts about this issue and have tried:

pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install ez_setup
easy_install -U setuptools

Nothing seems to work and I am not sure what to do next. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '17 at 16:59

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You may try to use the binary from this unofficial site. Just use pip install {wheel file name} to install it.

Hope this would make the installation easier.

answered Apr 03 '17 at 16:59

thewaywewere

@Cameron Can you give me a vote up if my answer helps to solve the question? – thewaywewere Jun 21 '17 at 12:57
hello, I tried all of the above ways - including installing the wheel file manually. But I keep getting (always the same) error `Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\[....]` Do you have an idea what this could be about? – Ivo Aug 27 '18 at 13:22
@Ivo You may check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49985465/python-setup-py-egg-info-failed-with-error-code-1) or open a new question for the problem you encountered. – thewaywewere Aug 27 '18 at 18:08
I've tried this already but unfortunately without success... Thank you though! – Ivo Aug 27 '18 at 18:47
After much searching (for windows 10) this worked. Can't thank you enough. – Wassadamo Sep 30 '18 at 23:43
This helped me as well. I had to download the .wh file, and I could install it. Thanks a bunch! – Vada Poché Dec 04 '18 at 05:40
The [docs](https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/project.html#installing-shapely-1-6) also suggest a second option for installing Shapely on Windows, namely with conda by using the conda-forge channel. – ketza Apr 27 '19 at 13:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 23:02

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I had a similar error for installing shapely-1.5.17 via pip install shapely, and installing this made the pip install command work thereafter:

sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev

answered Aug 08 '17 at 23:02

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 31 '20 at 01:22

0

As of 2020, you can now simply install Shapely for Windows with:

pip install shapely

(you many need --upgrade to get at least version 1.7.0, when binary wheels were added for Windows)

answered Jan 31 '20 at 01:22

Mike T

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