Yum Install libhdf5-dev on Amazon Linux

Given that Amazon Linux is a modification of RHEL - so the package manager is yum. The development lib of hdf5 for CentOS is hdf5-devel:

For CentOS

yum -y install hdf5-devel

The current version is (which will get installed) 1.8.12

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For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev

On Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, I can't install hdf5 using any of the listed package names. You have to run sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel first in order to add extra packages to your configuration.

Try this:

sudo yum install –y epel-release
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum install hdf5-devel

It works for me.