Updated information about obtaining the HDF5 source code to use the repos. (#3972)

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For help with installing, questions can be posted to the HDF Forum or sent to the HDF Helpdesk:
HDF Forum: https://forum.hdfgroup.org/
HDF Helpdesk: https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support/The+HDF+Help+Desk
HDF Helpdesk: https://hdfgroup.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
CONTENTS
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1. Obtaining HDF5
The latest supported public release of HDF5 is available from
https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/. For Unix and UNIX-like
platforms, it is available in tar format compressed with gzip.
For Microsoft Windows, it is in ZIP format.
The latest supported public releases of HDF5 are available on
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5.
2. Quick installation
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and support programs. For example, to install HDF5 version X.Y.Z at
location /usr/local/hdf5, use the following steps.
$ gunzip < hdf5-X.Y.Z.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd hdf5-X.Y.Z
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 <more configure_flags>
$ make
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$ make install
$ make check-install # verify installation.
Some versions of the tar command support the -z option. In such cases,
the first step above can be simplified to the following:
$ tar zxf hdf5-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
<configure_flags> above refers to the configure flags appropriate
to your installation. For example, to install HDF5 with the