Installing Octave with HDF5 on CentOS 6.8 with yum

If you are installing octave on CentOS6 and you wish to install HDF5, you may want to pull HDF5 from EPEL instead of RPMFORGE. You may have both repositories so you have to disable RPMFORGE first

# yum-config-manager --disable rpmforge

Install Octave with HDF5

# yum install octave hdf5 hdf5-devel