Installing h5py on an Ubuntu server

Question

I was installing h5py on an Ubuntu server. However it seems to return an error that h5py.h is not found. It gives the same error message when I install it using

Answer 1

It is generally preferable to use pip instead of installing it manually, since pip will also install all python dependencies. You would still need your header files though.

so:

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev
pip install h5py