[Matplotlib-users] GEOS installation for Basemap package

[Benjamin Root]

As a note: the `/include` came about due to a mistake with the environment
variables. So, the fact that a `sudo make install` even works is just
papering over the original mistake.

Ben Root

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Julian Gethmann <
mail.python.org at gethmann.org> wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> You are not allowed to create the directory /include as a normal user,
> because it is under / which is owned by root. If you really want to install
> it to this location you need to become super user first.
> So the last `make install` should be an `sudo make install`.
>
> But I would also stick to Paul Hobson's solution of using conda [1] or in
> your case homebrew [2].
>
> [1] https://www.continuum.io/downloads
> [2] https://brew.sh/
>
> Best regards,
> Julian
>
>
> On 07/17/2017 08:30 AM, Ahlam Al Qasim wrote:
>
>> To whom it may concern,
>>
>> I hope this email finds you well. I am trying to get the Basemap package
>> on
>> my mac, and have been following the instructions based on this webpage:
>> https://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html. I don't have GEOS
>> already installed so I tried following steps on the website to download it
>> with Basemap:
>>
>> cd geos-3.3.3
>> export GEOS_DIR=<where you want the libs and headers to go>
>> # A reasonable choice on a Unix-like system is /usr/local, or
>> # if you don't have permission to write there, your home directory.
>> ./configure --prefix=$GEOS_DIR
>> make; make install
>>
>>
>> However, I am getting errors at the third step (make; make install).
>> Attached is a copy of what I get on my python console, if it helps. I
>> think
>> the error occurs when trying to create the /include directory, but I'm not
>> sure how to fix it. I'm still new to python so any help would be much
>> appreciated!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ahlam Al Qasim
>>
>>
>>
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