Make your installation aware of the HDF5 libs, that have changing names: spu@dellSPU:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ sudo ln -s libhdf5_serial.so libhdf5.so spu@dellSPU:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ sudo ln -s libhdf5_serial_hl.so libhdf5_hl.so