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Of course, hdf5 must be installed first and since it is not a Python package, pip will likely need explicit information about hdf5 libraries and include files. The following command worked for me:

$ sage -pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-L/usr/local/hdf5/lib" --global-option="-l/usr/local/hdf5/lib" --global-option="-I/usr/local/hdf5/include" --global-option="-R/usr/local/hdf5/lib" h5py