A shell script to install tmux-2.5 and its dependencies from tarball (Only for CentOS, Ubuntu and Amazon Linux)

install_tmux.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install tmux from source
# Jul 12th, 2016 / lowply@gmail.com
# Sep 29th, 2016 / cynipe : Added Amazon Linux support and some fixes

set -ex

[ -f /etc/os-release ] && . /etc/os-release || { echo "Could not find /etc/os-release"; exit 1;  }

TMUX_VERSION="2.5"
LIBEVENT_VERSION="2.0.22-stable"
NCURSES_VERSION="${NCURSES_VERSION}"
TMUX_URL="https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/${TMUX_VERSION}/tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}.tar.gz"
LIBEVENT_URL="https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-${LIBEVENT_VERSION}/libevent-${LIBEVENT_VERSION}.tar.gz"
NCURSES_URL="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-${NCURSES_VERSION}.tar.gz"

WORKDIR="/tmp"
BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}/tmux_build_$(date +%y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
PKGCONFIG_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig"
TARGET_DIR="/usr/local/tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}"
TERMINFO_DIR_PATH="/usr/share/terminfo"
TERMINFO_DIRS_PATH="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo"

cd ${WORKDIR}

echo "Installing tmux for ${NAME}..."
if [ "${NAME}" = "Ubuntu" ]; then
    sudo apt-get -y install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config
    curl -sSL ${TMUX_URL} | tar xvz
    cd tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}
    ./configure --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}
elif [ "${NAME}" = "Amazon Linux AMI" ]; then
    sudo yum -y install glibc-static automake autoconf pkgconfig libevent-devel ncurses-devel
    curl -sSL ${TMUX_URL} | tar xvz
    cd tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}
    ./configure --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}*
elif [ "${NAME}" = "CentOS Linux" ] || [ "${NAME}" = "Amazon Linux AMI" ]; then
    sudo yum -y install glibc-static automake autoconf pkgconfig

    mkdir ${BUILD_DIR}

    echo "########################"
    echo "BUILDING LIBEVENT..."
    echo "########################"

    curl -sSL ${LIBEVENT_URL} | tar xvz
    cd libevent-${LIBEVENT_VERSION}
    ./configure --prefix=${BUILD_DIR} && make && make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf libevent-${LIBEVENT_VERSION}*

    echo "########################"
    echo "BUILDING NCURSES..."
    echo "########################"

    curl -sSL ${NCURSES_URL} | tar xvz
    cd ncurses-${NCURSES_VERSION}
    ./configure --prefix=${BUILD_DIR} --enable-pc-files --with-pkg-config-libdir=${PKGCONFIG_DIR} --with-default-terminfo-dir=${TERMINFO_DIR_PATH} --with-terminfo-dirs=${TERMINFO_DIRS_PATH} && make && make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf ncurses-${NCURSES_VERSION}*

    echo "########################"
    echo "BUILDING TMUX..."
    echo "########################"

    curl -sSL ${TMUX_URL} | tar xvz
    cd tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKGCONFIG_DIR} ./configure --enable-static --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}*
else
    echo "Your OS is neither Ubuntu or CentOS"
    exit 1
fi
sudo ln -sf $TARGET_DIR/bin/tmux /usr/local/bin/tmux