# Anyone know status of HDF5 build problems?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyone-know-status-of-hdf5-build-problems/12575
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyone-know-status-of-hdf5-build-problems/12575 "2018-07-22T04:42:47Z")
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### Author: ![nickeubank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nickeubank/32/3878_2.png) [@nickeubank](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nickeubank)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyone-know-status-of-hdf5-build-problems/12575/3 "2018-07-23T01:12:08Z")

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Thank you @djsegal ! Success!

To clarify @djsegal’s suggestion a little, I:

- Went to the [Homebrew website](https://brew.sh/), downloaded and installed Homebrew normally (i.e. not through Julia)
- ran `brew install hdf5` in the terminal (not in julia)
- THEN did `Pkg.build("HDF5")` in julia (0.6.3).

Success!

More generally, though, this still seems like a big general problem for new users – being able to read data and save things seems pretty central to Julia. Surely we can make this install work better?

(Sorry – I know it’s bad form to push for a fix to something open source if you aren’t in a position to do it oneself, but in this case I know NOTHING about gcc or homebrew, so am really not in a position to offer PRs. ☹ )

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