tmux installation on CentOS

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