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How to Install samtools on CentOS or Ubuntu
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For CentOS

sudo yum group install "Development Tools"
sudo yum install ncurses-devel bzip2-devel xz-devel

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.9/samtools-1.9.tar.bz2
tar xvjf samtools-1.9.tar.bz2
cd samtools-1.9
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

For Debian or Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.9/samtools-1.9.tar.bz2
tar xvjf samtools-1.9.tar.bz2
cd samtools-1.9
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Mac Mojave

wget https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.10/samtools-1.10.tar.bz2
cd samtools-1.10
make
cp samtools /usr/local/bin/

Reference: http://www.htslib.org/download/

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