installation script for tmux 1.9a

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Having trouble installing the latest stable version of tmux?

I know, official package for your OS/distro is outdated and you just want the newest version of tmux.

Well, this script should save you some time with that.

Prerequisities

• gcc
• wget

Installs

• tmux - 1.9a (latest stable)
• libevent - 2.0.21 (latest stable)
• ncurses - 5.9 (latest stable)

How to install

First of all, you should give me super user permissions, because this will install tmux to /usr/local/lib by default. Trust me, I'm a random guy from the interwebz.

Hit

curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/shime/5706655/raw/install.sh | sudo bash -e

install.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Script for installing tmux and dependencies.
# tmux will be installed in /usr/local/lib by default.

# Prerequisites: - gcc
#                - wget

# define versions

tmux_version="1.9"
tmux_patch_version="a" # leave empty for stable releases

libevent_version="2.0.21"
ncurses_version="5.9"

tmux_name="tmux-$tmux_version"
tmux_relative_url="$tmux_name/$tmux_name$tmux_patch_version"
libevent_name="libevent-$libevent_version-stable"
ncurses_name="ncurses-$ncurses_version"

# set the installation directory

target_dir="/usr/local"

# download source files for tmux, libevent, and ncurses
# save them in /tmp

cd /tmp

wget -O $tmux_name.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/files/tmux/$tmux_relative_url.tar.gz/download
wget -O $libevent_name.tar.gz https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/$libevent_name.tar.gz
wget -O $ncurses_name.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/$ncurses_name.tar.gz

# extract files, configure, and compile

# libevent installation
tar xvzf $libevent_name.tar.gz
cd $libevent_name
./configure --prefix=$target_dir --disable-shared
make
make install
cd -

# ncurses installation
tar xvzf $ncurses_name.tar.gz
cd $ncurses_name
./configure --prefix=$target_dir
make
make install
cd -

# tmux installation
tar xvzf ${tmux_name}*.tar.gz
cd ${tmux_name}*/
./configure CFLAGS="-I$target_dir/include -I$target_dir/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-L$target_dir/lib -L$target_dir/include/ncurses -L$target_dir/include"
CPPFLAGS="-I$target_dir/include -I$target_dir/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-static -L$target_dir/include -L$target_dir/include/ncurses -L$target_dir/lib" make
cp tmux $target_dir/bin
cd -

version=`tmux -V | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
if [ -z "$version" ]; then
  echo 
  echo "[error] failed to install tmux - check for errors in the above output"
  exit 1
fi

not just fancy --- necessary! thank you

You sir, are amazing.

FYI - libevent didn't download properly for me. I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 and had to install it manually because tmux threw an error when running 'make' as shown here:

http://jtskarbek.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/tmux-compile-failure/

Once I downloaded it separately and installed it, everything else worked fine.

Your script doesn't seem to build the man page for tmux. What's the proper way to augment it so that it is built?

The simplest solution is...

add-apt-repository ppa:pi-rho/dev
apt-get update
apt-get install tmux-y

@michaelsbradleyjr man pages are left out because we're not using package manager here. fork away and add support for man pages :)
@Integralist yes if your package manager is aptitude
@mdmcaus I don't know what happened, but link for libevent is correct

Works on my Ubuntu 14.04. Thanks!

Thanks!!

Note to others - I recommend closing any existing tmux sessions before launching the new tmux. I didn't, and not sure what happened but I was forced to do a hard reboot. :)

Thank you! Saved me a lot of time!

@shime Can you update it to tmux 2.0?

if after running this script your tmux is 'still' not upgraded, try

/usr/local/bin/tmux -V