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Install latest version of tmux in Ubuntu 16.04
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| # Steps to build and install tmux from source on Ubuntu. | |
| # Takes < 25 seconds on EC2 env [even on a low-end config instance]. | |
| VERSION=2.5 | |
| sudo apt-get -y remove tmux | |
| sudo apt-get -y install wget tar libevent-dev libncurses-dev | |
| wget https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/${VERSION}/tmux-${VERSION}.tar.gz | |
| tar xf tmux-${VERSION}.tar.gz | |
| rm -f tmux-${VERSION}.tar.gz | |
| cd tmux-${VERSION} | |
| ./configure | |
| make | |
| sudo make install | |
| cd - | |
| sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/tmux-* | |
| sudo mv tmux-${VERSION} /usr/local/src | |
| ## Logout and login to the shell again and run. | |
| ## tmux -V |
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There is also an "AppImage" installer here. This builds tmux in a docker container, from which you can then install the binary (instructions included in the linked repo).