pyhdfeos is a wrapper for the HDF-EOS and HDF-EOS5 libraries.
Python versions 2.7 and 3.4 are supported on Linux and Mac. Required python packages include
* cffi
* cython
* numpy
* numpy-devel
Both the HDF-EOS and HDF-EOS5 libraries are required. On some systems, such as Linux Mint, these are readily available through the system package manager, just make sure you have the devel packages installed as well. On such a system, the install command is just::
python setup.py install --user
Other systems such as OpenSUSE do not provide packages for HDF-EOS or HDF-EOS5, so they must be compiled from source.
Be advised, however, that there is a bug with HDF-EOS version 1.15
that prevents it from being used as-is with pyhdfeos. You
can patch it by editing src/EHapi.c and delete line 11545.
Ideally, you would install the libraries and header files into
/usr/local, but if that is not possible, you would need to
augment the search path when installing pyhdfeos with INCLUDE_DIRS
and LIBRARY_DIRS environment variables, something like
export INCLUDE_DIRS=/path/to/hdfeos/include
export LIBRARY_DIRS=/path/to/hdfeos/lib
python setup.py install --user
Macports provides packages for both HDF-EOS and HDF-EOS5, but the HDF-EOS5 port has the bug described above, so you should compile HDF-EOS5 from source.