Install tmux 3.0a on Amazon Linux 2 / rhel /centos

install-tmux.sh

# Install tmux 3.0a on Centos

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

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR LIBEVENT AND MAKE AND INSTALL
curl -LOk https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.1.11-stable/libevent-2.1.11-stable.tar.gz
tar -xf libevent-2.1.11-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.1.11-stable
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

# DOWNLOAD SOURCES FOR TMUX AND MAKE AND INSTALL

curl -LOk https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/3.0a/tmux-3.0a.tar.gz
tar -xf tmux-3.0a.tar.gz
cd tmux-3.0a
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

# pkill tmux
# close your terminal window (flushes cached tmux executable)
# open new shell and check tmux version
tmux -V

Thank you very much!!

Glad to know it was useful !

Works a charm, thanks!

This is awesome!

Worked amazing! You rock!

Thanks! Also works with https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/3.3a/tmux-3.3a.tar.gz

Worked amazing! Thank You!!

Thank you so much!

After running
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
I still get the error
configure: error: "libevent not found"

Any idea why?

It worked with tmux 3.4 too. Thanks!

Perfect solution!

I installed the libevent yum package libevent-devel.x86_64 and that seems to work too

Thank you so much!

If ./configure is missing, you may need to run sh autogen.sh first. (I noticed this for tmux 3.5)