1. remove old version libevent
$sudo yum remove libevent*
2. compile and install new version libevent
$wget https://codeload.github.com/libevent/libevent/tar.gz/release-2.0.21-stable $tar zxvf release-2.0.21-stable2 $cd libevent-release-2.0.21-stable/ $./autogen.sh $./configure $make $sudo make install
3. compile and install tmux
$wget http://liquidtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tmux/tmux/tmux-1.9/tmux-1.9a.tar.gz
$tar zxvf tmux-1.9a.tar.gz
$cd tmux-1.9a
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install
4. softlink to libevent
#for 32bit system
$ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5 /usr/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5
#for 64bit system
$ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5 /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5