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

# download latest libevent2 and tmux sources, and extract them somewhere
# (thx bluejedi for tip on latest tmux URL)
#
# at the time of writing:
cd ~
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 -zxvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tmux-1.9a.tar.gz

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

# cd to libevent2 src
cd ~/libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make 
sudo make install

# cd to tmux src
cd ~/tmux-1.9a
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make 
sudo make install

# you're good to go, for a sample ~/.tmux.conf check out
# https://github.com/sturadnidge/misc/blob/master/.tmux.conf