Install TMUX on Amazon Linux (EC2)

TMUXonEC2.sh

wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
tar zxf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.18-stable
sudo ./configure
sudo ./make
DIR="/home/ec2-user/downloads/libevent-2.0.18-stable"

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.6.tar.gz
tar zxf tmux-1.6.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.6
sudo make clean
sudo ./configure CFLAGS="-I$DIR/include" LDFLAGS="-L$DIR/lib"
sudo make
sudo ./tmux -V
sudo make install

I think line 5 is supposed to be 'sudo make'

Agreed ^

when I do "sudo make" I get "No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.". is that what's supposed to happen?

just do sudo yum install tmux ??

I think at this point "sudo yum install tmux" will do it!

Unfortunately, latest tmux in amazon repo is 1.8

I got the version 2.6 RPM at this location - https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ius-x86_64/tmux2u-2.6-1.ius.centos7.x86_64.rpm.html

sudo yum install tmux

This worked for me, thanks!