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Install tmux on OSX WITHOUT brew
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| ``` | |
| # 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 | |
| ``` |
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