'Installing geopandas on Apple M1 chip
How do you get geopandas to work in python with the new Apple M1 chip? Using pip does not work. I tried a lot of things and I think I came up with a work around that might be useful to others.
Solution 1:[1]
I spent the better part of today figuring out how to get geopandas to work on a new Mac with the M1 chip. According to this closed issue, you have to use conda (miniconda3 FOR the M1 chip) to install geopandas on Apple's new M1 chip. I found that to be true, but incomplete. After installing miniconda3 and running
conda install -c conda-forge geopandas pygeos
Which will take you down to Python 3.8, I was still getting an error.
Going into my .../miniconda3/lib, I found that there was a libffi.8.dylib file, but not a libffi.7.dylib file, so I just copied it cp libffi.8.dylib libffi.7.dylib and now python can import geopandas.
Hopefully that helps someone out there, or tell me why this workaround is not needed...
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | joshdr83 |