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I've installed hdfview in Ubuntu 17.04.

The application is running but it is not opening hdf files.

I have also installed openjdk-8-jdk.

This worked in 16.04... what could be the problem and how can I fix it?

Zanna
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gguerrer
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  • More details are needed, how did you install? what error is produced when opening files – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 21 '17 at 06:58
  • installed with sudo apt install hdfview. no error is printed. the file is simply not opened. can you install and try to open a file? I say it is a 17.04 problem because it was working on 16.04 – gguerrer Apr 21 '17 at 20:10
  • Same here - to be more precise, the GUI starts, opens the file, but on the root element of the hdf5 hierarchy is visible in the GUI... So not usable. It works fine on 16.04 – domini1000 Jun 16 '17 at 13:00

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I had the same problem here. I could solve it by installing the HDFView-3.0.0. It is a beta version but at least works. You need to create an account in the website, then, you can download the pre-built binary and you just need to follow the instructions (as in readme):

To install HDFView for Linux, copy HDFView-3.0.0-Linux.sh to where you want to install HDFView and:

  1. Execute HDFView-3.0.0-Linux.sh
  2. Follow prompts (you need to accept the license)
  3. Execute HDFView/3.0.0/hdfview.sh to run HDFView

In my case, the java version was wrong, so, when I execute the step 3 above, I received the message: /home/Downloads/HDFView-3.0-centos7/HDFView-3.0.0-Linux/HDFView/3.0.0/jre/bin/java: line 5: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.99-2.6.5.0.el7_2.x86_64/jre-abrt/bin/java: No such file or directory Then, I edited this file (in line 5) to point to the correct java path, in my case /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java.

I hope that works for you too.

Vanessa Leite
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Easy install(version hdf5-1.10.1) here: https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src

and configuration here: https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt

trakis
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