Error curses.h

bam_tview_curses.c:41:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory

Problem

ncurses library is missing

Solutions

a) Install ncurses library

sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

b) Install samtools using Bioconda

conda install -c bioconda samtools

c) Install samtools without the tview (text alignment viewer) which requires the ncurses library

cd samtools-1.3.1

./configure --without-curses

make

make prefix=$HOME/tools/samtools install