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I am on a HPC with no root access and I cannot use the sudo command but I am trying to get samtools-1.10 to work, unfortunately I get the error message:

The 'samtools tview' command uses the curses text user interface library.
Building samtools with tview requires curses/ncurses/etc development files
to be installed on the build machine; you may need to ensure a package such
as libncurses5-dev (on Debian or Ubuntu Linux) or ncurses-devel (on RPM-based
Linux distributions) is installed.

So I downloaded ncurses-6.1.tar.gz, I unzipped it and then used 

./configure -prefix /home/vbuswell/programmes/ncurses-6.1

samtools still gives me the error

fatal error: curses.h

Any advice? Have i installed ncurses in the wrong place? or do I specifically need libncurses5-dev?

genome_juice
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You might need sudo in order to facilitate your solution.

You’re simply missing the ncurses library. Fix by opening a terminal and typing the command below:

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

If you’re using RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux, fix it by typing this in the terminal: # yum install ncurses-devel ncurses

Michael Nelles
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