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I am trying to install tables package in Ubuntu 14.04 but sems like it is complaining.

I am trying to install it using PyCharm and its package installer, however seems like it is complaining about HDF5 package.

However, seems like I cannnot find any hdf5 package to install before tables.

Could anyone explain the procedure to follow?

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I found that installing the libhdf5-serial-dev with

  sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

did the trick.

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This works on a more bare-bones system. It should be the top answer.
You might also need to install python-dev, python3-dev, or python3.X-dev depending on which version of Python you're running (if this hasn't already been done, which on a new system it isn't usually).
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Search for the HDF5 library in the ubuntu package repository. 

apt-cache search hdf5

The command will show the packages relating to hdf5.

install the relevant package to you. 

sudo apt-get install package-name.

mostly you have to install the hdf5-tools, h5utils, python-tables.

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Try to install libhdf5-7 and python-tables via apt

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Apt couldn't find the libhdf5-7 package on Ubunu 18.04. T.C.'s answer below worked for me though.
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To be more precise, do two steps on Ubuntu

1) install hdf5

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

2) install pytables

pip install tables
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This worked like a charm. Thanks for saving time and energy

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