Potential solution to missing *.h5 output file

Dear All,

Using Ubuntu 10.10, I have encountered an issue while running the Data Analysis
tutorial: i.e - 
tri-rods.ctl >& tri-rods.out
It appears using the precompiled packages for Ubuntu, the software failed to
output any other files other than tri-rods.out 

There is no problem for this software if I was running it under Debian 6. What I
did was to install the MPB package for ubuntu by running 
sudo apt-get install mpb

then to remove the mpb:
sudo apt-get remove mpb

Subsequently, I installed the mpb package for Debian manually by downloading the
package from the Debian repository and running

dpkg -i <name of package>.deb

The *.h5 files began to output. I am not sure whether this applies for other
non-debian based linux distribution as well, but I hope similar steps could be
used for other distributions.

Thank you