from: https://gist.github.com/shrayasr/8714601
# Create a directory mkdir ~/tmux-install cd ~/tmux-install # Get the files curl -OL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.5.tar.gz curl -OL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/levent/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.16-stable.tar.gz # Extract them tar xzf tmux-1.5.tar.gz tar xzf libevent-2.0.16-stable.tar.gz # Compile libevent cd libevent-2.0.16-stable ./configure --prefix=/opt make sudo make install # Compile tmux cd ../tmux-1.5 LDFLAGS="-L/opt/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/include" LIBS="-lresolv" ./configure --prefix=/opt make sudo make install # Link it ln -s /opt/bin/tmux /usr/bin/tmux