How to check if HDF5 is installed?

Question

I have followed instructions from their site. The command ls /usr/local/hdf5 returns

bin include lib share

But

dpkg -s hdf5
dpkg-query: package 'hdf5' is not installed and no information is available

Why? I have downloaded from here https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtainsrc.html#conf and then I have followed the INSTALL file instructions,from make to make install. How can I know for sure that HDF5 in installed or not?

Could you reference the instructions you followed? If you have downloaded the source code and compiled it on your own, it's not common that a debian package is built automatically. — Thomas
– Thomas, Commented Jun 6, 2016 at 14:42
What distribution are you using? I can see it is Debian based, I just want to know which distro repository you would install it from. — Peschke
– Peschke, Commented Jun 6, 2016 at 15:41
@ElixirofLove I have downloaded from hdfgropup site,hdf5.1.8.17.tar.gz — MikiBelavista
– MikiBelavista, Commented Jun 6, 2016 at 17:23
As @Thomas stated above: Since you compiled hdf5 from source, dpkg will not know it is installed onto your system. — Peschke
– Peschke, Commented Jun 6, 2016 at 17:26

Michael Mrozek · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-26 19:48:29Z

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You can try running h5cc -showconfig:

SUMMARY OF THE HDF5 CONFIGURATION
        =================================

General Information:

           HDF5 Version: 1.8.12

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answered Oct 26, 2017 at 16:03

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Honeybear · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08 14:57:16Z

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The actual name of the hdf5 installation package is "libhdf5-dev" (not "hdf5"). Running the following command should return package information.

dpkg -s libhdf5-dev

If that doesn't give any results, you can check for any hdf5 installation by doing:

dpkg -l | grep hdf5

answered Feb 2, 2017 at 16:09

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