Install tmux 2.3 on rhel/centos 7

install-tmux

# Install tmux on rhel/centos 7

# install deps
yum install gcc kernel-devel make ncurses-devel

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR LIBEVENT AND MAKE AND INSTALL
curl -OL 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
cd ..

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR TMUX AND MAKE AND INSTALL
curl -OL 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
cd ..

# pkill tmux
# close your terminal window (flushes cached tmux executable)
# open new shell and check tmux version
tmux -V

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Install libevent-devel if tmux configure isnt saying yes to libevent.

Referenced here: https://gist.github.com/Root-shady/d48d5282651634f464af

I Installed tmux 2.4 as follows:

Download the .rpm file

wget http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64//tmux-2.4-2.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install .rpm file using yum

sudo yum localinstall tmux-2.4-2.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

Done!

yum localinstall tmux-2.4-2.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

and it does indeed !! thx

easy breezy thanks

big thanks

I Installed tmux 2.4 as follows:

Download the .rpm file

wget http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64//tmux-2.4-2.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install .rpm file using yum

sudo yum localinstall tmux-2.4-2.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm

Done!

It works！Thank you！