Installing Gdal with Anaconda

installing_gdal.md

Installing GDAL with Anaconda

Here are steps to install GDAL in Anaconda with python bindings.

1. Download and Install Anaconda (or Miniconda for minimal setup)
   • For Windows a shortcut to anaconda prompt will be created in the start menu which should open command prompt with conda activated.
   • For Linux/Mac you will be asked remove the automatic initialization, if you choose yes, you will need to manually run conda init <shell>.
     • Note: After initialization, conda will automatically activate the base environment by default everytime you open the terminal. If you don't prefer this configuration, run conda config --set auto_activate_base false
2. (Optional. You can skip this step if you want to only use base environment) Create a Conda environment with python.

conda create -n geospatial python=3.11

To list environments

conda env list 

To activate an environment

conda activate geospatial

3. Install GDAL

conda install -c conda-forge gdal

4. Test your installation

gdalinfo --version 

Should output something like this

GDAL 3.4.1, released 2021/12/27

To test python bindings:

from osgeo import gdal
print(gdal.__version__)

update (2025-05-20):

• additional note regarding conda init
• update python 3.9 to 3.11 . Tried 3.13 but getting warning messages when running gdal2tiles.py