Could not find library geos_c or load any of its variants

python shapely

Installed shapely using pip, and had the same problem. So I went ahead and installed it like so:

sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev

And it worked. I'm running Ubuntu, so if you're on Fedora, you should run:

sudo yum install geos-devel

python shapely

set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, then run python

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path_to/geos/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATHpython mytest.py

python shapely

In ubuntu, the following commands should take care of it.It all goes down to the following packages.

(Original 2017)

sudo apt-get install libgeos-c1 libgeos-3.4.2

EDIT: (updated versions 2020)

sudo apt-get install libgeos-c1v5 libgeos-3.7.1

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