OSError geos_c could not be found when Installing Shapely

Question

I\'m a newbie to making/plotting on maps with python, been trying to follow this blogpost to generate a world map (http://sciblogs.co.nz/seeing-data/2011/08/12/plotting-geog

Answer 1

On Ubuntu, to install GEOS, this worked for me:

$ sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev