First off, system packages like the ncurses development package libncurses5-dev are non-science-related standard software for a development machine that your system administrators should have no qualms about installed. (Frankly, they should already be installed on a development machine!) So instructing your administrators to install this package and other system packages like it will be doing everyone using that development machine a service.
Otherwise, in samtools 1.3 you can disable the curses-using tview command by configuring with
Code:
./configure --without-curses make
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