Re: [Pytables-users] PyTables broke in Ubuntu 12.10

[Antonio V. <ant...@ti...>]

Hi Jason,

Il giorno 26/ott/2012, alle ore 07:28, Jason Moore <moo...@gm...> ha scritto:

> So it looks like python-tables in Ubuntu 12.10 requires libhdf5-7 and libhdf5-7 has /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.7 not libhdf5.so.6.

Correct, the hdf5 package has been updated in ubuntu 12.10.
If you use the standard python-tables package from ubuntu repositories please file a bug report on launchpad.


> Jason
> 
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Aquil Abdullah <aqu...@gm...> wrote:
> Can you check to see if libhdf5.so is in your path? If not, you can add it to the path where it resides to your PATH variable. 
> 
> Hopefully, that helps.
> 
> Aquil H. Abdullah
> 
> On Oct 25, 2012, at 18:42, Jason Moore <moo...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> I just updated to Ubuntu 12.10 and my pytables install is broken. I reinstalled and it seems like I have hdf5 1.8.4 installed but I get this error:
>> 
>> moorepants@moorepants-LT:BicycleDataProcessor(master)$ vitables InstrumentedBicycleData.h5
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/vitables", line 105, in <module>
>>     main(sys.argv)
>>   File "/usr/bin/vitables", line 48, in main
>>     from vitables.vtapp import VTApp
>>   File "/usr/share/vitables/vitables/vtapp.py", line 35, in <module>
>>     import tables
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tables/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
>>     from tables.utilsExtension import getPyTablesVersion, getHDF5Version
>> ImportError: libhdf5.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> Jason


Anyway you can also use the eotools PPA [1] that has a more updated version of pytables: 2.4 against 2.3.1 of the official universe repo.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~a.valentino/+archive/eotools?field.series_filter=quantal

best regards


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Antonio Valentino