Install tmux 1.8 on CentOS 6.x minimal (64bit)

tmux-1.8-on-CentOS-6.x.txt

# download latest libevent2 and tmux sources, and extract them somewhere
# (thx bluejedi for tip on latest tmux URL)
#
# at the time of writing:
# https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/latest/download?source=files
# 

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

# cd to libevent2 src
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make install

# cd to tmux src
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make install

# you're good to go, for a sample ~/.tmux.conf check out
# https://github.com/sturadnidge/misc/blob/master/.tmux.conf

hello thanks for your gist, btw you can get the latest tmux from this url http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/latest/download?source=files

Nice one. This also works on centos5.9 with tmux1.8 If you are still getting errors using this method make sure you haven't got the centos libevent-devel package installed (like I did!).

It works for Centos 6 and Tmux 1.8!!!
Thanks a lot!!!

Awesome! Very helpful!

Worked on CentOS 6.4 with tmux 1.8. Thanks for the contribution

Worked with Oracle Linux 6.4 with tmux 1.8. Thx! :-)

other than yum install and make install; it would be better if other commands were run as unprivileged user. thanks for the tip.

Thanks for this awesome gist, I made a more secure version, please don't compile as root, it is bad security practice.

https://gist.github.com/valentt/7612258

Thanks !

Thanks dude ! PS : Sometimes you might need to be sudo if you get errors , otherwise it works perfectly .
I just followed the same steps. Really you rock man .

Skipping the 'yum install' step, this even works on slackware. SHOCKED as long as you have ncurses w/dev installed.

This worked for RHEL 6.5 & I'm super happy now! :D

Thanks a lot

This took me to tmux 1.9a on CentOS 6.5...

http://superuser.com/questions/738829/attempting-to-install-tmux-on-centos-6-4-or-centos-6-5-fails-with-error-evbuff

worked great, but please mentio that you commands a valid when using 'bash' other shells might not work with setting LDFLAGS the way you do

rpm package is ready 👍 🍔 http://pkgs.repoforge.org/tmux/

@wangwenchao the packages there are very old..

Works on CentOS 7.0.1406 with tmux1.9a

Install tmux on CentOS 6:
1. sudo rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
2. sudo yum install tmux -y

awesome, worked for me!

thanks, it's my wanted

Alternatively, a static tmux binary could make it. No compilation required.

sh <(wget -qO- s.minos.io/s) -x tmux-1.8

Works for me on CentOS release 6.3 (Final), tmux-1.9.tar. But I used libevent-2.1.8-1 instead.