Difficulties installing Scuff-em

[Issachooi]

Dear Homer Reid,

While I'm trying to install Scuff-em in Ubuntu, I face the following problem.

checking hdf5.h usability... no checking hdf5.h presence... no checking for hdf5.h... no checking H5pubconf.h usability... no checking H5pubconf.h presence... no checking for H5pubconf.h... no configure: error: couldn't find HDF5; configure --without-hdf5

I did fetch the packages using the following command, % sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev libblas-dev libhdf5-serial-dev python-dev gmsh

and libhdf5-serial-dev is already the newest version.

Could you please guide me on the installation? Appreciate your help very much.

Best Regards Chee Quen

[HomerReid]

As the error message says, the installer can't find the hdf5.h file (and other files). If the hdf5 package is correctly installed on your system in the default configuration, those files should be in /usr/include. If they aren't, the hdf5 package isn't installed on your system in the usual way.

If you have some sort of non-standard HDF5 installation in which the header files and binaries are in non-standard locations, you can specify those using the --with-hdf5-includedir and --with-hdf5-libdir options to configure.

Like the error message says, you can always just configure --without-hdf5 if you want to run without hdf5 support.

[HomerReid]

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