installing gdal package for django-location-field and python3 - django

Question

I'm trying to get django-location-field installed on django version 2.1.2 using python3.
I installed it and added location_field.apps.DefaultConfig to settings, then an error pops up for a missing package gdal.
Error
python3 manage.py runserver
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x7efbf9f56d90>
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/home/samuel/Documents/code/DECOMAGNA/decomagna/inventory/models.py", line 3, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point
...
from django.contrib.gis import gdal
...
File "/home/samuel/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/ds.py", line 9, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.libgdal import GDAL_VERSION, lgdal
File "/home/samuel/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py", line 43, in <module>
% '", "'.join(lib_names)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not find the GDAL library (tried "gdal", "GDAL", "gdal2.2.0", "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.
Trying to install it throws an error for the package.
pip3 install GDAL
Collecting GDAL
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/57/7f0536cd46bebb30e709b8cd3bcebf9c3d4acc4ad5e9d7bfc73cd39c09a9/GDAL-2.3.2.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/setup.py", line 153, in fetch_config
p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1344, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config': '../../apps/gdal-config'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/setup.py", line 240, in get_gdal_config
return fetch_config(option, gdal_config=self.gdal_config)
File "/tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/setup.py", line 157, in fetch_config
raise gdal_config_error(e)
__main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../../apps/gdal-config': '../../apps/gdal-config'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/setup.py", line 153, in fetch_config
p = subprocess.Popen([command, args], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1344, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config': 'gdal-config'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/setup.py", line 435, in <module>
setup(**setup_kwargs)
File "/home/samuel/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 140, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
...
raise gdal_config_error(e)
__main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config': 'gdal-config'
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-84b30dz9/GDAL/
I'm also using it on a virtualenv and I've also tried using a --user with no success.
I've added this as the code for

Answer 1

since you are using ubuntu machine, run this command in the terminal
sudo apt-get install binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin