The dependencies, with the minimum tested version, of cartopy 0.5.0 are:
- cython - 0.15.1
- proj.4 - 4.7 (4.8 for more projection definitions)
- geos - 3.3.4
- python2 - 2.7.3
- shapely - 1.2.14
- scipy - 0.10.0
- pyshp - 1.1.4
- matplotlib - 1.2.0rc2
- pep8 - 1.3.3 (for testing)
- nose - 1.2.1 (for testing)
See https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/issues/46 and https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/issues/48 for basic install instructions