If you are using a 64bit Ubuntu version you will need to install some 32bit libraries to run vmAIS.
Here are the specific commands that you'll need to run to make vmAIS run on 64bit Ubuntu 16.04:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libsm6:i386 libice6:i386 libxrender1:i386 libx11-6:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libxext6:i386 libxrender1:i386