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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:09:42+00:00

I need to install the h5py Python module, and all its absent dependencies, on

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I need to install the h5py Python module, and all its absent dependencies, on a Debian Linux system. This task is complicated by the following:

  1. I don’t have any superuser privileges on this system (no sudo, no root password, etc.);
  2. the rest of the code I am using requires version 2.7 of Python, which is not the default version installed in this system (although Python 2.7 is available under /opt/python-2.7.1).

The ideal solution would be one that would enable me to use the dependency info in the python-h5py Debian package (wheezy release) to orchestrate the installation of all the missing prerequisites for h5py. Is there a way to do this? If so how can I specify the version of Python under /opt/python-2.7.1 as the one to use?

Any suggestions on how best to do this would be appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This should be possible using virtualenv. You would create a virtualenv like this (at the command line):

    virtualenv -p /opt/python-2.7.1 mypythonenv

    Last bit is the name of a new folder for the environment to go in.

    Then:

    cd mypythonenv
source bin/activate

    Then you can install whatever Python modules you want, and they will be installed in the virtualenv, without requiring any superuser privileges. As far as I know, you can’t use .deb packages there, but you can use Python installers like pip or easy_install inside it.

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