jakebathman
11/16/2015 - 7:17 PM

Install tmux 2.0 on rhel/centos 6

Install tmux 2.0 on rhel/centos 6

# Install tmux on Centos release 6.5

# Forked from https://gist.github.com/rothgar/cecfbd74597cc35a6018
#  which lists the steps for installing tmux 1.9

# install deps
yum install gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR LIBEVENT AND MAKE AND INSTALL
curl -OL https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR TMUX AND MAKE AND INSTALL
curl -OL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-2.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf tmux-2.0.tar.gz
cd tmux-2.0
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

# pkill tmux
# close your terminal window (flushes cached tmux executable)
# open new shell and check tmux version
tmux -V