Tmux 1.8 CentOS

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# I had problems with using ncurses from source, so just use the one from Yum
sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel

# Download, build, and install libevent
wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz   
tar xvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local                                                                         
make && sudo make install

# Download, build. and install tmux
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.8.tar.gz
tar xzf tmux-1.8.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.8
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local                                                                
make && sudo make install