Compile tmux in ubuntu

This recipe is for compiling from source the latest version of tmux. Tested on ubuntu 11.04

Install prerequisites

Copyaptitude install libncurses5-dev

Install libevent

Get latest version from: http://libevent.org/ Show archive.org snapshot

Configure for installation in an alternate location:

Copytar xvfz libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz 
cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure --prefix=$HOME/bin/libevent
make
make install

And now, tmux

Get latest version of tmux from http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ Show archive.org snapshot

Copytar xvfz tmux-1.7.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.7
DIR="$HOME/bin/libevent"
./configure --prefix=$HOME/bin/tmux CFLAGS="-I$DIR/include" LDFLAGS="-L$DIR/lib"
make
make install

Configure the execution environment

Add the following lines to your .bashrc file. This is to indicate where libevent is located and to use the compiled version of tmux instead of the older one (e.g. if it was installed with dpkg):

Copyexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/bin/libevent/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export PATH=${HOME}/bin/tmux/bin:${PATH}
export MANPATH=${HOME}/bin/tmux/share/man:${MANPATH}
# In order to work with 256 colors
export TERM="xterm-256color"

Close your session and login again.

References

• Why can't gcc find libevent when building tmux from source? Show archive.org snapshot
• Installing a library locally in home directory, but program doesn't recognize it Show archive.org snapshot