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Installing HDF5

Procedure

  1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
  2. Run the following commands to decompress the HDF5 installation package:
    cd /path/to/SRC
    tar -xvf hdf5-1.10.1.tar
  3. Run the following command to go to the directory generated after decompression:
    cd hdf5-1.10.1
  4. Run the following command to perform the configuration:
    ./configure --enable-parallel --enable-shared --prefix=/path/to/DEPENDENCIES CC=mpicc CXX=mpic++
  5. Run the following commands to perform the compilation and installation:
    make -j
    make -j install
  6. Run the following commands to configure environment variables:
    export PATH=/path/to/DEPENDENCIES/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/DEPENDENCIES/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH