How to install matplotlib basemap on Ubuntu/Debian to fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mpl_toolkits.basemap'
Note that matplotlib basemap is deprecated in favour of cartopy !
Problem:
When running your Python script, you see this error message:
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ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-b1872316c43a> in <module>
----> 1 from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mpl_toolkits.basemap'
But installing basemap
using pip install basemap
doesn’t work:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement basemap (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for basemap
Solution
First, we need to install the libgeos library and development headers:
sudo apt -y install libgeos-dev
Now we can install basemap
using
pip3 install git+https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/
This will usually take a couple of minutes.
Now run your script again, the ModuleNotFoundError
should have disappeared now.