Installing tmux on EC2

install_ec2.sh

# Installing tmux on Amazon-EC2

# If you don't have libevent install use wget to install the libevent and install

wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
tar zxf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
sudo ./configure & sudo make install

# If you don't have curses install use yum to install the curses

sudo yum install ncurses-devel

# Finally Downlload tmux and Install

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.8.tar.gz
tar zxf tmux-1.8
sudo ./configure & sudo make install

# If you see issue like the following, add symbolic link to 64bit user library to fix the issue.
# tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5 /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5

line 16 should be tar zxf tmux-1.8.tar.gz?

I followed these steps, and I haven't figured out how to actually start tmux. I tried executing tmux and got 'command not found'. I tried rebooting my instance, and got the same results..

Why in the world wouldn't you just use sudo apt-get install tmux or yum install tmux, as appropriate?

Why in the world wouldn't you just use sudo apt-get install tmux or yum install tmux, as appropriate?

For many distros, the default tmux is < 2.x. And there are a number of configuration changes between 1.x and 2.x. On a more personal note, I use iterm2 on a mac, mosh and then tmux. I need all three packages at the latest major version for smooth integration.