samtools installation errors

Question

[saj98]

Hello everyone I am trying to install samtools version 1.6 I downloaded it from the following resource [https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/1.6/]. Then I run the following command ./configure , so it came fine with no error. Then I run make, it came fine with no error. When I run make install . It gave the following error shaima@sarkarlab-MS-7885-Invalid-entry-length-16-Fixed-up-to-11:~/Downloads/samtools-1.6$ make install, the error is mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share/man/man1 install -p samtools /usr/local/bin install: cannot create regular file '/usr/local/bin/samtools': Permission denied Makefile:292: recipe for target 'install' failed make: *** [install] Error 1

I appreciate your help and time

Answer 1

[fishka]

try

make clean


make


sudo make install

[saj98]

Thank you I got it

Answer 2

[fishka]

you have to add sudo

sudo make install

[saj98]

I did it, but now gave me the following error cd htslib-1.6 && make htslib_static.mk make[1]: Entering directory '/home/shaima/Downloads/samtools-1.6/htslib-1.6' sed -n '/^static_libs=/s/[^=]*=/HTSLIB_static_LIBS = /p;/^static_ldflags=/s/[^=]*=/HTSLIB_static_LDFLAGS = /p' htslib.pc.tmp > htslib_static.mk make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/shaima/Downloads/samtools-1.6/htslib-1.6' make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.

[Charles Plessy]

If you have administrator privileges (and therefore can use sudo) you can also try to install samtools from your package manager. For instance on Debian and Ubuntu: sudo apt install samtools. It may not be the latest version, though backports often get eventually provided.