Install Shapely: OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

Question

I have to install Shapely package (http://toblerity.org/shapely/project.html#installation). But when I am using:

pip install Shapely

I am getting this error:

Collecting Shapely
  Using cached Shapely-1.5.17.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\setup.py", line 38, in <module>
        from shapely._buildcfg import geos_version_string, geos_version, \
      File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\shapely\_buildcfg.py", line 200, in <module>
        lgeos = CDLL("geos.dll")
      File "C:\Users\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 344, in __init__
        self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
    OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-mwuxcain\Shapely\

And, when I am using:

conda install shapely

I am getting this error:

Fetching package metadata ...........


PackageNotFoundError: Package not found: Conda could not find '

I am using Python 3.6.0 (Anaconda3) on Windows 10 (64-bit).

Please help. (nothing works)

Answer 1

Download WHL file using http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely

Install:

python -m pip install Shapely-1.5.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

Ubuntu:

pip install shapely==1.6b2

Answer 2

You can also use

conda install -c conda-forge shapely

It worked for me.

Answer 3

Solution which worked for me (Windows Server):

1. Install osgeo4w from https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

2. copy geos_c.dll and geos.dll to C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin

Answer 4

pip install shapely was not working but conda install shapely worked fine for me (windows user)