Hello! I am trying to run RepeatMasker on some genomic sequences from some various teleost fishes. RepeatMasker starts and gives me this:

    RepeatMasker version 4.1.1
    Search Engine: NCBI/RMBLAST [ 2.10.0+ ]
    
    Using Master RepeatMasker Database: 
    ...path/bin/miniconda3/share/RepeatMasker/Libraries/RepeatMaskerLib.h5
      Title    :
      Version  :
      Date     :
      Families :


    Species "teleost fish" is not known to RepeatMasker.  There may
    not be any TE families defined in the libraries for this
    species/clade or there may be an error in the spelling.
    Please check your entry against the NCBI Taxonomy database
    and/or try using a broader clade or related species instead.
    The full list of species/clades defined in the library may be
    obtained using the famdb.py script.


It does the same with any other species I've tried including danio and homo sapiens so I think the issue is the database. Please help! Thanks.

I figured it out!!! RepeatMasker is running python3, so when I was running just python it was finding h5py but when I ran python3 it couldn't find it. 

I fixed it by adding:

    sys.path.append("/mypath/bin/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages")

directly to the famdb.py file, between import sys and import h5py

and it worked!! Hope this helps someone else