This file contains instructions for the installation of HDF5 on Unix-like systems. First, one must obtain a tarball of the HDF5 release from the ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/dist/HDF5 repository. The files are available in uncompressed tar, gzip, bzip2, and compress formats. For those that like to live dangerously and don't like to read ;-) you can do the following: $ tar xf hdf5-1.0.0a.tar $ cd hdf5-1.0.0a $ make test $ make install # Optional Step 0: Install optional third-party packages. * GNU zlib compression library, version 1.0.2 or later is used for the `deflate' compression method. Step 1. Unpack the source tree. * The tarball will unpack into an hdf5-1.0.0a directory with one of the following commands: $ tar xf hdf5-1.0.0a.tar OR $ gunzip