tmux_local_install.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Script for installing tmux on systems where you don't have root access.
# tmux will be installed in $HOME/local/bin.
# Either wget or curl is required.
# It's assumed that a C/C++ compiler are installed.

# exit on error
set -e

# create our directories
mkdir -p $HOME/local $HOME/tmux_tmp
cd $HOME/tmux_tmp

# use wget if installed; otherwise, use curl if installed; otherwise exit
if [ -n "`command -v wget`" ]; then
  DOWNLOAD_COMMAND="wget"
  DOWNLOAD_TO_COMMAND="wget -O"
elif [ -n "`command -v curl`" ]; then
  DOWNLOAD_COMMAND="curl -L -O"
  DOWNLOAD_TO_COMMAND="curl -L -o"
else
  echo "Error: either wget or curl must be installed to use tmux_local_install.sh"
  exit 1
fi

# download source files for tmux, libevent, and ncurses
$DOWNLOAD_TO_COMMAND tmux-1.6.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/tmux/tmux-1.6/tmux-1.6.tar.gz/download
$DOWNLOAD_COMMAND https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.19-stable.tar.gz
$DOWNLOAD_COMMAND ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz

# extract files, configure, and compile

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# libevent #
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tar xvzf libevent-2.0.19-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.19-stable
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install
cd ..

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# ncurses  #
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tar xvzf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install
cd ..

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# tmux     #
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tar xvzf tmux-1.6.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.6
./configure CFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/include -I$HOME/local/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/local/lib -L$HOME/local/include/ncurses -L$HOME/local/include"
CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/include -I$HOME/local/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-static -L$HOME/local/include -L$HOME/local/include/ncurses -L$HOME/local/lib" make
cp tmux $HOME/local/bin
cd ..

# cleanup
rm -rf $HOME/tmux_tmp

echo "$HOME/local/bin/tmux is now available. You can optionally add $HOME/local/bin to your PATH."