topic Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux in Python Questions

Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

JasonLi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:12:34 GMT

Hi Team,

I'm a newbie to ArcGIS, got a request to enable Arcpy on Jupyter Notebook without ArcGIS server bundled on the same Linux machine, is that possible to just install arcpy as a Python 3 library only? I explored some discussions in this community here and most of them are about Jupyter Notebook on Windows environment, in my case is Jupyter Notebook on Linux.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 02:43:57 GMT

arcpy can't be installed as a separate package, it is part of the ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro or Arc-Whatever distributions that contain it. Each version is slightly different as far as I can tell

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

JasonLi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:48:59 GMT

thanks Dan!

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

JasonLi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:07:24 GMT

Hi Dan,

As your reply said, can I say the structure of Jupyter Notebook(Linux machine1) + ArcGIS Server(Linux machine 2) won't be able to enable Arcpy on Jupyter Notebook, because Arcpy will never be successfully installed.

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

LukeWebb — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:54:20 GMT

Yes, unless you install a copy of ArcGIS Desktop, or alternative ArcGIS suite products that contain arcpy on that machine. (Im not aware of any "free" products that contain arcpy, but it does come with Desktop basic!)

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:08:58 GMT

Jason...

If you examine the code associated with the use of Jupyter in say the arcgis 1.6.2 module, you will see that geometries are paralleled by an 'has arcpy' and 'doesn't have arcpy' stream

_HASARCPY = None
_HASSHAPELY = None

If you have arcpy, then that filter is triggered and your geometry is handled largely by arcpy. If you don't, then you are streamed to what 'shapely' has to offer. Numpy/Pandas is largely used to handle the attribute stream.

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

JasonLi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:48:27 GMT

thanks for the confirmation!

Re: Install Arcpy library without ArcGIS server on linux

JasonLi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:48:57 GMT

thanks!