install HDF5 and pytables in ubuntu

Question

I am trying to install tables package in Ubuntu 14.04 but sems like it is complaining.

I am trying to install it using PyCharm and its package installer, however seems like it is complaining about HDF5 package.

However, seems like I cannnot find any hdf5 package to install before tables.

Could anyone explain the procedure to follow?

Solution 1

I found that installing the libhdf5-serial-dev with

  sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

did the trick.

Solution 2

Search for the HDF5 library in the ubuntu package repository.

apt-cache search hdf5

The command will show the packages relating to hdf5.

install the relevant package to you.

sudo apt-get install package-name. 

mostly you have to install the hdf5-tools, h5utils, python-tables.

Solution 3

To be more precise, do two steps on Ubuntu

1) install hdf5

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

2) install pytables

pip install tables