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I am trying to install mapnik in ubuntu 16.04 64-bit machine, following this tutorial https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UbuntuInstallation but when I enter ./configure I am getting error like this

Inheriting from mapnik-settings.env
scons: *** SCons version 4.1.0 does not run under Python version 2.7.12.
Python >= 3.5 is required.

I have tried different methods but nothing is working. My gcc version is gcc (GCC) 6.3.0 and clang version is clang version 3.8.0-2ubuntu4 (tags/RELEASE_380/final).

Adithya
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  • The 16.04 LTS is EOL. But you may be interested in installing Mapnik as deb-package from universe pocket by sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libmapnik-dev . – N0rbert Jun 03 '21 at 11:28
  • @N0rbert its not working..libmapnik-dev is already installed – Adithya Jun 03 '21 at 12:06
  • Just looked: the configure script uses PYTHON as the interpreter if it's set, otherwise the thing named python. So if you can get a Python3 installed, and set the environment variable PYTHON to python3 there's a chance it will work. I suspect you're be chasing incompatibilities all throughout though - i.e. your 16.04 g++ may be too old for the current code, etc. – Mats Wichmann Jun 04 '21 at 17:48
  • Hmm, the scons is bundled in with mapnik, and it's an old-ish scons (2.3) which shouldn't be making the complaint above (the version msg should have 2.3.0 in it if nothing else) - I had guessed the issue was that mapnik branch bundled a new scons. There's got to be something further fishy with how it's used - the invocation should pick up the right one: $PYTHON scons/scons.py ... – Mats Wichmann Jun 06 '21 at 13:51

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