Trinity Installation Error

[Micah Adams]

I am trying to install Trinity on my Ubuntu 15.04 Virtual Machine. I thought that I had it installed and was good to go, but I was encountering many errors, so I thought I would try a re-install. I downloaded the latest from Github, extracted it, and typed "make" in terminal. It proceeded to install, but after a minute or so the compilation terminated. 

Here is the terminal output right when I see the first problem. 

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/micah/trinity/trinity-plugins/htslib'

make[2]: git: Command not found

gcc -g -Wall -O2 -I.  -c -o kfunc.o kfunc.c

gcc -g -Wall -O2 -I.  -c -o knetfile.o knetfile.c

gcc -g -Wall -O2 -I.  -c -o kstring.o kstring.c

gcc -g -Wall -O2 -I.  -c -o bgzf.o bgzf.c

In file included from bgzf.c:39:0:

htslib/bgzf.h:34:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory

 #include <zlib.h>

                  ^

compilation terminated.

Makefile:143: recipe for target 'bgzf.o' failed

make[2]: *** [bgzf.o] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/micah/trinity/trinity-plugins/htslib'

Makefile:32: recipe for target 'htslib_target' failed

make[1]: *** [htslib_target] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/micah/trinity/trinity-plugins'

Makefile:30: recipe for target 'trinity_essentials' failed

make: *** [trinity_essentials] Error 2

I have Java installed on the VM, and I followed the instructions on the webpage. 

I am not sure what is going wrong, and I cant seem to find the answer in this group or the rest of the internet. 

Any help would be much appreciated. 

[Tiago Hori]

Sounds like your missing zlib, which is c++ library.  

T.

"Profanity the is the only language all programmers understand" 

Sent from my iPhone, the universal excuse for my poor spelling.

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[maria prado]

I am experiencing the same issue. How did you solve it?

[Micah Adams]

I was in fact missing zlib. A simple Google search told me how to install it from the command line. I believe I used to this to install it.

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

I also found a list of prerequisites for Trinity, but I don't know where. Searching for that may help you as well.