A shell script to install tmux-2.3 and its dependencies from tarball (Only for CentOS and Ubuntu)

install_tmux.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install tmux from source
# Jul 12th, 2016 / lowply@gmail.com

set -e

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

TMUX_URL="https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/2.3/tmux-2.3.tar.gz"
LIBEVENT_URL="https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.0.22-stable/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz"
NCURSES_URL="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.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"
TERMINFO_DIR_PATH="/usr/share/terminfo"
TERMINFO_DIRS_PATH="/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo"

cd ${WORKDIR}

if [ "${NAME}" = "Ubuntu" ]; then
    echo "Installing tmux for Ubuntu..."
    sudo apt-get build-dep tmux
    sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config
    curl -kOL ${TMUX_URL} && tar vxzf tmux-2.3.tar.gz
    cd tmux-2.3
    ./configure --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmux-2.3
elif [ "${NAME}" = "CentOS Linux" ]; then
    echo "Installing tmux for CentOS..."
    sudo yum install glibc-static automake autoconf pkgconfig

    mkdir ${BUILD_DIR}

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

    curl -kOL ${LIBEVENT_URL} && tar vxzf libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
    cd libevent-2.0.22-stable
    ./configure --prefix=${BUILD_DIR} && make && make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf libevent-2.0.22-stable*

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

    curl -kOL ${NCURSES_URL} && tar vxzf ncurses-6.0.tar.gz
    cd ncurses-6.0
    ./configure --prefix=${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-6.0*

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

    curl -kOL ${TMUX_URL} && tar vxzf tmux-2.3.tar.gz
    cd tmux-2.3
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKGCONFIG_DIR} ./configure --enable-static --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmux-2.3*
else
    echo "Your OS is neither Ubuntu or CentOS"
    exit 1
fi