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GDAL on OS X

This will resolve issues with GDAL on OS X in your virtualenv:

  • brew install gdal
  • From OUTSIDE a virtualenv (try, deactivate), run this command to find your system site-packages directory: python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"
    • Chances are this will be /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
    • Note: this is where pip install ... packages are placed
  • Copy the gdal-XXX.pth file to the site-packages directory of your virtual environment.
  • Find your site packages directory for your virtual env by running the earlier command, python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())", from inside an activated virtualenv.

Example, I use ~/Envs as my WORKON_HOME (where virtualenv creates environments), so my command would be:

cp /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gdal-py2.7.pth ~/Envs/rex/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gdal.pth

Now GDAL will work inside Python.

In production deployments this dependency is handled entirely inside of the Dockerfile.

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