# Issues when running file in HDF5 file format from Datacamp

**URL:** https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/issues-when-running-file-in-hdf5-file-format-from-datacamp/10186
**Category:** Notebook
**Tags:** help-wanted
**Created:** [July 31, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/issues-when-running-file-in-hdf5-file-format-from-datacamp/10186 "2021-07-31T09:18:57Z")
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### Author: ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/issues-when-running-file-in-hdf5-file-format-from-datacamp/10186/2 "2021-07-31T14:56:36Z")

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Run the following line **in a cell in your notebook above the cell you are trying to read the HDF5** :

```python
%conda install pytables

```

That is based on [here](https://anaconda.org/anaconda/pytables). I’m suggesting that first because from your included image I can see you are using Anaconda.

If that doesn’t fix it, then try running replacing that suggestion with this one, based on [here](https://pypi.org/project/tables/):

```python
%pip install tables

```

If you aren’t familiar with the `%conda install` and `%pip install` magic commands now in Jupyter, see my last paragraph in [this post](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/unable-to-run-selenium-on-jupyter-notebook-masos-catalina/9279/2). The last line in the error was trying to direct you how to fix the issue. Conda is the package manager for Anaconda. It’s a general package manager and installs all sorts of things, not just Python-related. pip is the package manager for the Python package Index and only installs things linked to the Python installation.

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