tmux-1.8-on-CentOS-6.x.txt

# download latest libevent2 and tmux sources, and extract them somewhere
#
# at the time of writing:
# https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/latest/download?source=files
# 

# don't compile tools as root, just don't do it.

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

# let's create user "mary" and assign a user password
useradd mary -m
passwd mary

# now login as mary
su - mary

# download and decompress packages
wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/latest/download?source=files
tar xvzf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
tar xvzf tmux-1.8.tar.gz


# cd to libevent2 directory and compile it
cd libevent*
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make

# exit out of user "mary" and install libevent2 as root
exit
cd /home/mary/libevent*
make install

# return as mary and continue with installing
su - mary

# cd to tmux direcotry
cd tmux*
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make

# and now finish the install as root
cd /home/mary/tmux*
make install

# return as root and cleanup
exit
userdel mary -r

Awesome thank you, works great!

Awesome, thanks!