how to install libhdf5-dev? (without yum, rpm nor apt-get)
<p>I want to use h5py which needs libhdf5-dev to be installed. I installed hdf5 from the source, and thought that any options with compiling that one would offer me the developer headers, but doesn't look like it.</p>

<p>Anyone know how I can do this? Is there some other source i need to download? (I cant find any though)</p>

<p>I am on amazon linux, yum search libhdf5-dev doesn't give me any result and I cant use rpm nor apt-get there, hence I wanted to compile it myself.</p>

<p>If you've built hdf5 library to a non-standard directory that is not included in your <code>PATH</code>, than you have basically two options. Either add this directory to you <code>PATH</code> and <code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> or you can specify these paths to <code>pip</code>. Something like this works:</p>

<pre><code>pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I&lt;path_to_direcotry_with_headers&gt;" --global-option="-L&lt;path_to_director_with_lib&gt;" h5py
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python linux install hdf5