Installing the Basemap Module on Ubuntu Linux 20.04

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There are several ways to install the basemap module of mpl_toolkits in Python. Pip install may succeed but you are likely to encounter the error message "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named mpl_toolkits.basemap" when importing the module: "from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap".

A working basemap installation may proceed as follows:

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1. sudo apt-get install libgeos-3.8.0
2. sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev
3. pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/master.zip

Or via conda:

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1. conda install basemap