No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'

Question

I am trying to install fiona and geopandas on a mac machine.

I have installed GDAL trough brew install gdal --HEAD

If I try install fiona, I get the following:

sudo pip3 install fiona
Collecting fiona
  Downloading Fiona-1.8.18.tar.gz (1.3 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.3 MB 4.7 MB/s 
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.9 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-sk0rqerp/fiona_e389978ed5a44635a5158a0ba3df8562/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-sk0rqerp/fiona_e389978ed5a44635a5158a0ba3df8562/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /private/tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-bngdnoq7
         cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-sk0rqerp/fiona_e389978ed5a44635a5158a0ba3df8562/
    Complete output (2 lines):
    Failed to get options via gdal-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'
    A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable.
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Cathe

What output do you get doing gdal-config --version? Make sure gdal is in your PATH. – Immunity

@Immunity I get gdal-config --version -bash: gdal-config: command not found – Cathe

@Cathe can you run the binary from /usr/local/bin/gdal-config? if so, try opening a new terminal and/or checking to see if /usr/local/bin is in in the output of echo $PATH – Scapular

I also tried to install gdal via homebrew, but it looks like the brew logs show a bunch of 403 errors and SHA mismatches, so it didn't actually install properly, which is why the binary is coming up as command not found when we try to run it. Seems brew is having issues installing this package right now. – Hardee

I was indeed able to solve this with a simple brew install gdal and could install fiona and geopandas. – Loera

Answer 1

This problem occured for me when trying to install geopandas on a M1 Mac (using the command pip3 install geopandas)

Using homebrew package manager, install the gdal package:

brew install gdal

Then try again installing the failed pip install:

pip3 install geopandas

Pithead

it was useful for me, thank you – Trawl