Install libraries for geospatial applications in Ubuntu

This instruction shows how to set up a Python (conda) environment on Ubuntu with gdal, rasterio, geopandas and other essential geospatial libraries.

Creating a new virtual environment:

conda create — name geos

Activating existing environment:

conda activate geos

Update and install the latest conda version:

conda update -n base conda

Add/give the highest priority to the “conda-forge” channel and update all Python standard library packages to the newest version:

conda config — add channels conda-forge
conda update — all

Installing GDAL

conda install gdal

Installing Rasterio

conda install rasterio

Installing other packages

conda install numpy pandas geopandas scikit-learn jupyterlab matplotlib seaborn xarray rasterstats tqdm pytest sqlalchemy scikit-image scipy pysal beautifulsoup4 boto3 cython statsmodels future graphviz pylint mlxtend line_profiler nodejs sphinx nbsphinx

Finished.

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