This page lists the packages (usually) installed in the LSCE-IPSL CDAT versions that are not available in the standard UV-CDAT (i.e. there are no ccmake configuration switches to get them installed).

• Web site: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.5/html/index.html

• Web site: http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/

• http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/installing.html#installing
• Non standard requirements: geos>=3.3.3, shapely>=1.1.4, pyshp>=1.1.4, proj4>=4.8.0, six>=1.3.0
• Optional dependencies (http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/installing.html#optional-dependencies): not checked!
• pip install cartopy
  • Check proj4 is there is a proj related error
  • The installation may bump shapely to a newer version: e.g. 1.3.2 to 1.5.8
    • Shapely seems to have non-blocking Cython speedup compilation errors

Check the installed version with: python -c 'import cartopy; print cartopy.__version__'

• Web site: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
• Required by: cartopy

Check the installed version with: which geos-config and geos-config –version

• Web site: https://code.google.com/p/pyshp/
• Required by: cartopy

• pip install pyshp

Check the installed version with: python -c 'import shapefile; print shapefile.__version__'

• Web site: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
• Required by: cartopy

We use the PROJ.4 library already installed on the system!

Note: if proj-devel is not installed, you will get the following kind of error when trying to install Cartopy

    lib/cartopy/trace.cpp:237:22: fatal error: proj_api.h: No such file or directory
     #include "proj_api.h"
                          ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Check the installed version with: rpm -qa | grep '^proj'

• Web site: http://cython.org/
• Version: python -c 'import Cython; print Cython.__version__'

• Web site: http://numpy.scipy.org/
• Version: python -c 'import numpy; print numpy.__version__'

• Web site: http://toblerity.org/shapely/
• Version: python -c 'import shapely; print shapely.__version__'
• Required by: cartopy

• Web site: http://pythonhosted.org/six/
• Version: python -c 'import six; print six.__version__'
• Required by: cartopy

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