Comment 13 for bug 348983

Hi,

I also suffer from this problem. If possible I would like to see this issue solved.

As a temporary work-around, the following procedure worked for me.
- install python-dev and libhdf5-serial-dev (See one of the above mails)
- download pytables 2.1.1, untar (for instance in ~/tmp) and compile as explained in the pytables manual (but do not install as root, which is the last step in the manual)
- check the tests
- copy the directory ~/tmp/tables-2.1.1/tables to a library directory included
in PYTHONPATH. (To achieve this, I included in ~/.bash_profile the line: export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/myprogs/python/:~/lib/python/:. ) Thus, I used cp -r ~/tmp/tables-2.1.1/tables ~/lib/python .

Hope this works for you too. I also installed pytables as root by running python --setup.py instal, but this did not have the desired result for some reason.