Could not find the GDAL library

I followed the installation instructions and got the following error.

I’m on Python 3.5 and Django 1.11.4

Any clue what could be going on or how to fix this?

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x10793a950>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 228, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 117, in inner_run
    autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 251, in raise_last_exception
    six.reraise(*_exception)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 228, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 27, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 85, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 94, in create
    module = import_module(entry)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mapwidgets/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .widgets import GooglePointFieldWidget, GooglePointFieldInlineWidget, \
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mapwidgets/widgets.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.forms import BaseGeometryWidget
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/forms/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .fields import (  # NOQA
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSException, GEOSGeometry
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .collections import (  # NOQA
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/collections.py", line 11, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.geos.geometry import GEOSGeometry, LinearGeometryMixin
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py", line 11, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis import gdal
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.datasource import DataSource
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py", line 39, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.driver import Driver
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.prototypes import ds as vcapi, raster as rcapi
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/ds.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.libgdal import GDAL_VERSION, lgdal
  File "/Users/santiago/Programming/comedydir/myvenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py", line 45, in <module>
    % '", "'.join(lib_names)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not find the GDAL library (tried "gdal", "GDAL", "gdal2.1.0", "gdal2.0.0", "gdal1.11.0", "gdal1.10.0", "gdal1.9.0"). Is GDAL installed? If it is, try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.

[sangel10]

For anyone else having the same problems, the solution here worked for me: https://www.alextomkins.com/2017/08/fixing-gdal-geos-django-macos/

The solution was to uninstall GDAL with homebrew and instead install it from here: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

Then update the necessary environment variables

[abdalwhabSalahaldeen]

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