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I am facing this issue, Could you please give me some hints how to solve this:

$sudo cp ~/anaconda2/lib/libhdf5* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
cp: not writing through dangling symlink '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhdf5.so'
cp: not writing through dangling symlink '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhdf5_hl.so'

Thanks

S.EB
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I see that question is a bit outdated, but anyway:

A dangling symlink is, actually, broken symlink, which points to nowhere.
So in such situation the one have to check destination path (maybe it's moved somewhere) or use cp's parameter --remove-destination.

from man cp page: 

--remove-destination
    remove  each existing destination file before attempting to open
    it (contrast with --force)
Alex Bender
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