# Problems to Install JLD, HDF5

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-to-install-jld-hdf5/13219>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [August 11, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-to-install-jld-hdf5/13219 "2018-08-11T02:20:11Z")\
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I had similar problems when I tried to install JLD, HDF5 in Julia 0.7

For me the following worked:

> [@Anyone know status of HDF5 build problems?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anyone-know-status-of-hdf5-build-problems/12575/3):
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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 kn…

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