Install Shapely: OSError: [WinError 126] Could not find the specified module

Question

I need to install the Shapely package ( http://toblerity.org/shapely/project.html#installation ). But when I use:

pip install Shapely 

I get 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 use:

 conda install shapely 

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

Installation:

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

Ubuntu:

 pip install shapely==1.6b2