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Install tmux 2.3 on CentOS 6.6
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Adapted from https://gist.github.com/rothgar/cecfbd74597cc35a6018

Remove existing tmux package, if any:

yum remove tmux

Install dependencies:

yum install -y gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel

Download and install libevent:

curl -LO https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.0.22-stable/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz

tar xvzf libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.22-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Download and install libevent:

cd -
curl -LO https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/2.3/tmux-2.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf tmux-2.3.tar.gz
cd tmux-2.3
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Clear bash's command hash for tmux, then check version:

hash -d tmux
tmux -V
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