h5pfc.mpich command not found

Introduction

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

h5pfc.mpich: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: h5pfc.mpich: command not found

Solutions to h5pfc.mpich: command not found

How To Fix h5pfc.mpich: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu h5pfc.mpich is provided by libhdf5-mpich-dev package.

libhdf5-mpich-dev 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 development files for use with MPICH2. Warning: the C++ interface is not provided for this version.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhdf5-mpich-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libhdf5-mpich-dev.

sudo apt -y install libhdf5-mpich-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libhdf5-mpich-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix h5pfc.mpich command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.