title: HDF5 Library mismatch
body: <p>Can any Python gurus help me solve this error? Getting a HDF5 Library mismatch error.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that by default when I install h5py </p>
  
  <pre><code>pip install h5py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it also installs latest HDF5 dependency which is 1.10.2.
  My application apparently requires an earlier version, 1.8.11.</p>
  
  <p>My complete error</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;  Warning! ***HDF5 library version mismatched error*** The HDF5 header
  &gt; files used to compile this application do not match the version used
  &gt; by the HDF5 library to which this application is linked. Data
  &gt; corruption or segmentation faults may occur if the application
  &gt; continues. This can happen when an application was compiled by one
  &gt; version of HDF5 but linked with a different version of static or
  &gt; shared HDF5 library. You should recompile the application or check
  &gt; your shared library related settings such as 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'. You
  &gt; can, at your own risk, disable this warning by setting the environment
  &gt; variable 'HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK' to a value of '1'. Setting it to
  &gt; 2 or higher will suppress the warning messages totally. Headers are
  &gt; 1.10.2, library is 1.8.11
  &gt;         SUMMARY OF THE HDF5 CONFIGURATION
  &gt;         =================================
  &gt; 
  &gt; General Information:
  &gt; -------------------
  &gt;            HDF5 Version: 1.8.11
  &gt;           Configured on: Sun Jul 24 12:04:33 EDT 2016
  &gt;           Configured by: prisms@sikasso
  &gt;          Configure mode: production
  &gt;             Host system: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>etc, etc</p>