Setting up tmux without root access

At times we want access to tmux and we are just stuck due to admin restrictions or root access.

There are three importantparts to setting up tmux,

It is dependent on libevent Compiling and installing on non-system folders require customized commands making tmux run from non-system location

Lets get started,

Download the source packages from following locations tmux https://github.com/tmux/tmux/ libevent http://libevent.org/ (Check for the compatible version from tmux readme) Create a non-system folder for your custom packages. I have $HOME/.usr folder on my remote machine Extract the downloaded files Get into the libevent source folder and executethe following commands on bash DIR="$HOME/.usr" ./configure CFLAGS="-I$DIR/include" LDFLAGS="-L$DIR/lib" --prefix=$DIR make && make install Get into the tmux source folder and execute following commands on bash sh autogen.sh ./configure CFLAGS="-I$DIR/include" LDFLAGS="-L$DIR/lib" --prefix=$DIR make && make install In order to run tmux you will have to tweak the command by prefixingLD_PRELOAD=$HOME/.usr/lib/libevent.so
Sample: $LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/.usr/lib/libevent.so tmux

You can (should) create alias to make life easy. In your .bash_profile or .bash_rc add the followinglines

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.usr/bin alias tmux='LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/.usr/lib/libevent.so tmux'

Enjoy :wink: