You will have to tell us what error messages you got from make. It may be that make worked, and samtools was compiled - but as it is not yet on the $PATH try calling it with ./samtools instead of just samtools?
Peter On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Νικόλαος Νικηφόρος Γιακουμάκης <nickng...@gmail.com> wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > Hello, > I downloaded smatools-1.2.tar.bz2 which I extracted in Ubuntu 12.04 OS and > from the terminal I tried to install and open the Samtools by going inside > the directory and > by using the "make" command as described in http://www.htslib.org/download/ > but as a noob in Linux I can not seem to get it running. > > Any help on how to install/open the samtools in linux? > > Thank you for your time > > NNG > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Samtools-help mailing list > Samtools-help@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Samtools-help mailing list Samtools-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-help