How to install tmux on centos 7

Tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal.
    
If you use Debian/Ubuntu, you can just run apt-get install tmux, and voila. 
  
Since the title was about centos 7, then do the following step to install tmux.
  (1). tmux has a library dependency on libevent which, of course, isn’t installed by default. 
    $ wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
    $ tar xzvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
    $ cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
    $ ./configure && make
    $ sudo make install
  (2). To get and build the latest from version control:
    $ git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
    $ cd tmux
    $ sh autogen.sh
    $ ./configure && make

Tips:
 1. During the second step, if you encounter with "libevent not found” error"
 You should install the libevent development package, by running the following command.
 $ yum install libevent-devel
 
 2. If you run with "curses not found" error
 To compile the code you need the devel packages, run the following comamnd
  $ yum install ncurses-devel
  $ yum install glibc-static
  

Tips : By using epel-release you can install tmux via yum
yum install epel-release
yum install tmux

Thanks Root-Shady and MorganGeek!

You helped me out 😄

Cheers!

how do you use epel-release ? when i do a: yum install epel-release --- im getting error nothing to do.

		# start ::: how-to build tmux from source on older boxes ?!
		# mkdir -p /tmp/tmux-install; cd /tmp/tmux-install
		# wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
		# tar xzvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
		# cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
		# ./configure && make
		# sudo make install
		# # on GentOS
		# sudo yum install -y ncurses-devel
		# # or Ubuntu
		# sudo apt-get install -y ncurses-dev
		# # clone the latest stable master branch version
		# git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
		# cd tmux/
		# sh autogen.sh
		# /configure && make
		# # and verify 
		# which tmux 
		# tmux -V
		# stop  ::: how-to build tmux from source on older boxes ?!
		#
		# v1.1.2
		# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
		# mkdir -p ~/.tmux/plugins
		# git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
		# git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-copycat
		##  and verify by:
		# find ~/.tmux/plugins -type d -maxdepth 2
		## stdout should look like
		# ~/.tmux/plugins/
		# ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
		# ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-copycat

tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.1.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ls /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.1.so.6
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.1.so.6 /usr/lib64/libevent-2.1.so.6

You can install tmux on centos 7 using the following command
yum install tmux

I used the IUS Community repo and it installed fine for me: https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ius-x86_64/tmux2u-2.8-1.ius.centos7.x86_64.rpm.html