h5perf_serial command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

h5perf_serial: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: h5perf_serial: command not found

Solutions to h5perf_serial: command not found

How To Fix h5perf_serial: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu h5perf_serial is provided by hdf5-tools package.

hdf5-tools is:

Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) is a file format and library for storing scientific data. HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of HDF4.x. It has a more powerful and flexible data model, supports files larger than 2 GB, and supports parallel I/O.

This package contains runtime tools for HDF5.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install hdf5-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install hdf5-tools.

sudo apt -y install hdf5-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install hdf5-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix h5perf_serial command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.