pytables install

https://pytables.github.io/usersguide/installation.html

1. make sure of the prerequisite

e.g. as of Jan.19.2015
Python >= 2.6 including Python 3.x
HDF5 >= 1.8.4 (>=1.8.7 is strongly recommended),
NumPy >= 1.4.1,
Numexpr >= 2.0 and
Cython >= 0.13
argparse (only Python 2.6, it is used by the pt2to3 utility)

N.B. HDF5 should be installed like the following
wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.14.tar
tar xvf hdf5-1.8.14.tar
cd
./configure --prefix=$[[HOME]]/local/hdf5
make && make install
export HDF5_DIR=$HOME/local/hdf5
source (~/.bashrc)

2. run

pip install tables --user