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Bobby Zhang
Bobby Zhang

Reputation: 261

How do I download h5dump? (h5dump: command not found)

I'm getting an IOerror trying to open a HDF5 file, so I should use H5dump to check the file (according to: H5PY IOError: Unable to open file (File signature not found)). However, I have no clue what to download to obtain usage of the h5dump command.

I have already downloaded and built the binary distribution for centOS (https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/) but that did not help. I have found the doc pages (https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/Tools.html#Tools-Dump). Every command is meticulously described, including h5dump, but they have not included a single download link for reasons incomprehensible for my tiny brain.

I've opened the HDF5 file with the HDFViewer tool, if thats anything. How do I get h5dump?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6398

Answers (2)

ClimateUnboxed
ClimateUnboxed

Reputation: 8087

On an ubuntu-flavour linux box you can type

sudo apt-get install hdf5-tools

I think on a mac you can also do

brew install hdf5

this should give you h5dump

Upvotes: 1

kcw78
kcw78

Reputation: 8026

The utilities are included in the gzipped tarball (hdf5-1.10.5-linux-centos7-x86_64-shared.tar.gz) found at the link below. Look under Pre-built Binary Distributions:

DOWNLOAD HDF5

Once you extract the files, you will have a bin directory. That's where you will find h5dump and many other utilities. Good luck.

Upvotes: 2

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