Install tmux 1.9 on rhel/centos 6

install-tmux

# Install tmux on Centos release 6.5

# 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-1.9a.tar.gz
tar -xvzf tmux-1.9a.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.9a
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

not working for me, i get an error when running LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

configure: error: "curses not found"

I Also can't run make and i get -bash: Make: command not found

any ideas ?

It works fine on RHEL 6.5. Thanks.

Updated libevent link for @phub1's comment:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/levent/release-2.0.22-stable/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz

The general steps worked for me on Centos 7.1 using tmux 2.2

updated to tmux-2.2 and libevent-2.0.22

current as of 20160614

yum install gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel
wget https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.0.22-stable/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
tar -xf libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.22-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
cd ..
wget https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/2.2/tmux-2.2.tar.gz
tar -xf tmux-2.2.tar.gz
cd tmux-2.2
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Thanks a lot, guys!
It works fine on Oracle Linux Server release 6.8 with tmux-2.2.

Thanks Rothgar&Infotek, nicely installed on CentOS 6.8

Thanks for this script. Saves me the hassle of setting up tmux on each new dev VM that I get to work on.

for the incredibly lazy people

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rothgar/cecfbd74597cc35a6018/raw/1f96ddcae45419788b2076d965851e072c3f201c/install-tmux | bash

I tried to follow the updated instructions here and it's not working for me, I get the same output from make when I set the LDFLAGS and when I don't. This is for both tmux 2.2 and 2.2 (with the version of libevent specified above). The only difference was that I had PREFIX=${HOME} instead of PREFIX=/usr/local/

[12:21:54] % make
depbase=`echo control.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
	gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"tmux\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"tmux\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"2.4\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"tmux\ 2.4\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"tmux\" -DVERSION=\"2.4\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_PATHS_H=1 -DHAVE_PTY_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_DIR_H=1 -DHAVE_TERM_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRFD=1 -DHAVE_FLOCK=1 -DHAVE_PRCTL=1 -DHAVE_SYSCONF=1 -DHAVE_CFMAKERAW=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_B64_NTOP=1 -DHAVE_FORKPTY=1 -DHAVE_DAEMON=1 -DHAVE_SETENV=1 -DHAVE_ASPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_STRCASESTR=1 -DHAVE_STRSEP=1 -DHAVE_CFMAKERAW=1 -DHAVE_DECL_OPTARG=1 -DHAVE_DECL_OPTIND=1 -DHAVE_DECL_OPTRESET=0 -DHAVE_BSD_TYPES=1 -DHAVE___PROGNAME=1 -DHAVE_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_SHORT_NAME=1 -DHAVE_PR_SET_NAME=1 -DHAVE_PROC_PID=1  -I.  -DTMUX_CONF="\"/etc/tmux.conf\"" -DDEBUG -iquote.     -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -Wno-long-long -Wall -W -Wformat=2 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wwrite-strings -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wbad-function-cast -Winline -Wcast-align -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-attributes     -MT control.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o control.o control.c &&\
	mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
control.c: In function ‘control_callback’:
control.c:80: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘evbuffer_readln’
control.c:80: error: ‘EVBUFFER_EOL_LF’ undeclared (first use in this function)
control.c:80: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
control.c:80: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [control.o] Error 1

OH , you are a good man ,Keisuke Emperor.

thinks!

Update for latest (2021) version:

# Install tmux on Centos release 6.5

# 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 https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/3.1c/tmux-3.1c.tar.gz # https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases
tar -xvzf tmux-1.9a.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.9a
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