Install Tmux on Ubuntu

!! Download

Download from [http://tmux.sourceforge.net].

!! Install libevent-dev

! Ubuntu 9 or less

Make sure you are install libevent 1.4 or greater.  Ubuntu 9.04 comes with 1.3.

To download libevent directly, go to [http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/].

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$ tar xvfz libevent-1.4.x-stable.tar.gz
$ cd libevent-1.4.x
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
}}}


Install the curses development files

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$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
}}}

! Ubuntu 10 or great

Install libevent-dev and libncurses-dev

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$ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libncurses5-dev
}}}

!! Build/Install Tmux

{{{
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
}}}

If you get an error saying

{{{
tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libeven-1.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
}}}

then you need to run

{{{
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
}}}

and it should work.

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