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Tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal.
If you use Debian/Ubuntu, you can just run apt-get install tmux, and voila.
Since the title was about centos 7, then do the following step to install tmux.
(1). tmux has a library dependency on libevent which, of course, isn’t installed by default.
$ wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
$ cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install
(2). To get and build the latest from version control:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
$ cd tmux
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make
Tips:
1. During the second step, if you encounter with "libevent not found” error"
You should install the libevent development package, by running the following command.
$ yum install libevent-devel
2. If you run with "curses not found" error
To compile the code you need the devel packages, run the following comamnd
$ yum install ncurses-devel
$ yum install glibc-static
@trideeprath
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You can install tmux on centos 7 using the following command
yum install tmux

@haidangwa
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I used the IUS Community repo and it installed fine for me: https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ius-x86_64/tmux2u-2.8-1.ius.centos7.x86_64.rpm.html

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