Having trouble installing the latest stable version of tmux?
Save yourself some time and run this little fellow!
First of all, you should give me super user permissions, because this will install tmux to /usr/local/lib by default. Trust me, I'm a random guy from the internet.
Hit
curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/shime/5706655/raw/install.sh | sudo bash -e
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Script for installing tmux and dependencies. | |
| # tmux will be installed in /usr/local/lib by default. | |
| # Prerequisites: - gcc | |
| # - wget | |
| # define versions | |
| tmux_version="1.9" | |
| tmux_patch_version="" # leave empty for stable releases | |
| libevent_version="2.0.21" | |
| ncurses_version="5.9" | |
| tmux_name="tmux-$tmux_version" | |
| tmux_relative_url="$tmux_name/$tmux_name$tmux_patch_version" | |
| libevent_name="libevent-$libevent_version-stable" | |
| ncurses_name="ncurses-$ncurses_version" | |
| # set the installation directory | |
| target_dir="/usr/local" | |
| # download source files for tmux, libevent, and ncurses | |
| # save them in /tmp | |
| cd /tmp | |
| wget -O $tmux_name.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/tmux/$tmux_relative_url.tar.gz/download | |
| wget -O $libevent_name.tar.gz https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/$libevent_name.tar.gz | |
| wget -O $ncurses_name.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/$ncurses_name.tar.gz | |
| # extract files, configure, and compile | |
| # libevent installation | |
| tar xvzf $libevent_name.tar.gz | |
| cd $libevent_name | |
| ./configure --prefix=$target_dir --disable-shared | |
| make | |
| make install | |
| cd - | |
| # ncurses installation | |
| tar xvzf $ncurses_name.tar.gz | |
| cd $ncurses_name | |
| ./configure --prefix=$target_dir | |
| make | |
| make install | |
| cd - | |
| # tmux installation | |
| tar xvzf ${tmux_name}*.tar.gz | |
| cd ${tmux_name}*/ | |
| ./configure CFLAGS="-I$target_dir/include -I$target_dir/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-L$target_dir/lib -L$target_dir/include/ncurses -L$target_dir/include" | |
| CPPFLAGS="-I$target_dir/include -I$target_dir/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-static -L$target_dir/include -L$target_dir/include/ncurses -L$target_dir/lib" make | |
| cp tmux $target_dir/bin | |
| cd - | |
| version=`tmux -V | cut -d ' ' -f 2` | |
| if [ -z "$version" ]; then | |
| echo | |
| echo "[error] failed to install tmux - check for errors in the above output" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi |