Compiling BEDTools on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx

You will need these libraries

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev


after which, it is a simple
$ make clean
$ make all[ -d obj ] || mkdir -p obj
[ -d bin ] || mkdir -p bin
Building BEDTools:
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- Building in src/utils/lineFileUtilities
  * compiling lineFileUtilities.cpp

- Building in src/utils/bedFile
  * compiling bedFile.cpp

- Building in src/utils/bedGraphFile
  * compiling bedGraphFile.cpp

- Building in src/utils/tabFile
  * compiling tabFile.cpp

- Building in src/utils/genomeFile
  * compiling genomeFile.cpp

- Building in src/utils/gzstream
g++ -Wall -O2 -c -o ../../../obj//gzstream.o gzstream.C -I.

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