Basemap is a plug-in of matplotlib. Matplotlib is a drawing library that helps to draw data in multiple ways using python. And Basemap is used to draw maps. The followings are steps to install basemap.

→ yay basemap
2 community/python-basemap-common 1.2.1-3 (76.5 MiB 186.2 MiB) 
    Data files for python-basemap
1 community/python-basemap 1.2.1-3 (132.6 KiB 806.8 KiB) 
    Toolkit for plotting data on map projections
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1

You choose 1 and it will automatically install 2 for you.

I use this to draw maps, so I also installed Matplotlib and NumPy

→ pip install matplotlib --user

All the other dependencies you see in it’s website, installing basemap will automatically install them.

Author: o_oyao

Link: http://dyingdown.github.io/2020/02/05/Install-Basemap-of-Python-Linux/

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