Could not find library geos_c or load any of its variants

Question

I use python in fedora 19. I wanted to run the following line Python: import shapely.geometry the following error appears:

OSError: C

Answer 1

set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, then run python

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path_to/geos/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

python mytest.py