Make can't find curses.h
<p>I have this program called samtools (version 1.3) that is used for manipulating the files that you get from DNA sequencing experiments.</p>

<p>The downloaded program is contained in a folder. To set the program up I enter that folder in the terminal (on an ubuntu computer). I enter the commando "make".</p>

<p>it runs an prints what it does but terminates with the error message:</p>

<pre><code>bam_tview_curses.o bam_tview_curses.c
bam_tview_curses.c:41:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
 #include &lt;curses.h&gt;
                    ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [bam_tview_curses.o] Error 1
</code></pre>

<p>My initial response (after searching the Internet) was that curses was not installed, and I tried to remedy that using sudo (apparently my user was not in the list of sudoers though.</p>

<p>So I tried to see if curses was already installed, after consulting the Internet I tried </p>

<pre><code>ldconfig -p | grep ncurses
</code></pre>

<p>which gave the output:</p>

<pre><code>libncursesw.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) =&gt; /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
libncurses.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) =&gt; /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
</code></pre>

<p>I took this as curses was installed. But that leaves me at a loss what could have happened. But this should at least mean that curses are there right? I'm not very experianced using ubuntu or C programs (I took a smaller course in C long ago and whil I've used linux computers quite some I've mostly used the terminal for navigation)</p>

<p>Happy for Help!</p>