Unable to install gdal in python 3.6.1 in macos Sierra

Question

I was trying to install gdal in python 3.6.1, but getting the following error. How to overcome this?

bibinwilson ~ $ pip3 install gdal

 Collecting gdal Downloading GDAL-2.2.1.tar.gz (475kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 481kB 397kB/s Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: running egg_info creating pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info writing pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/top_level.txt writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found Traceback (most recent call last): File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 131, in fetch_config p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 707, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1326, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 179, in get_gdal_config return fetch_config(option, gdal_config = self.gdal_config) File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 135, in fetch_config raise gdal_config_error(e) __main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 131, in fetch_config p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 707, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1326, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 339, in <module> **extra ) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 955, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 279, in run self.find_sources() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 306, in find_sources mm.run() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 533, in run self.add_defaults() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 562, in add_defaults sdist.add_defaults(self) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py", line 36, in add_defaults self._add_defaults_ext() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py", line 119, in _add_defaults_ext build_ext = self.get_finalized_command('build_ext') File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py", line 299, in get_finalized_command cmd_obj.ensure_finalized() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized self.finalize_options() File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 214, in finalize_options self.gdaldir = self.get_gdal_config('prefix') File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 188, in get_gdal_config return fetch_config(option) File "/private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/setup.py", line 135, in fetch_config raise gdal_config_error(e) __main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config' ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/43/7yqv__4j5776m508kggs_dxm0000gn/T/pip-build-naebgem9/gdal/

Answer 1

I had this error and installing GDAL through Homebrew fixed this for me. Installing the the binaries for GDAL didn't correct the error but once I installed through brew it was resolved.

brew install gdal

seems like the same issue as here: Python GDAL: pip install --no-install GDAL fails

If you've already installed the binaries (like I had) then this answer worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44051123/3969685

Answer 2

This simple procedure seemed to work for me on MAC sierra, python 3.6, GDAL 2.2.3

1) Install GDAL framework using dmg installer for MAC [GDAL MAC Frameworks]: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

2) Add gdal-config folder to your path and get your version:

$ export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/2.2/Programs:$PATH

$ gdal-config --version

3) Use pip to install the version reported by gdal-config --version :

$ pip install gdal==2.2.3

Step 1 Seems to set up the python site-packages under its install framework folders and I think you could copy them to your python site-packages. But better to use pip install.

Answer 3

This simple procedure seemed to work for me on MAC

1. Install GDAL framework using Brew > brew install gdal
2. gdal-config --version

gdal-config --version

2.4.4 3. GDAL Python binding pip3 install gdal==2.4.4

Note the GDAL version of the end of the command, it must be the same as the obtained in the step above using gdal-config. To avoid conflicts or any further issues, it's important to install and use the exact versions that any component will require.