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

Shapely loads geos via ctypes.

Try this in your python and see if you get anything:

from ctypes.util import find_library
find_library('geos_c')

If it doesn't work, then your geos installation is probably messed up. According to this, your geos should be in /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1. Is your library actually there?