This manual was designed for Debian 10. Other systems may require installation of additional dependencies.
Prepare
Purge old version of tmux:
sudo apt purge tmux
Install required development tools:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install autotools-dev automake build-essential libtool libtool-bin -y
Create a temporary directory:
mkdir -p /tmp/tmux-build
cd /tmp/tmux-build
ncurses
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
tar xzf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
cd ncurses-6.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
make -j8
make install
cd ..
libevent
wget https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.1.11-stable/libevent-2.1.11-stable.tar.gz
tar zxf libevent-2.1.11-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.1.11-stable
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
make -j8
make install
cd ..
tmux
wget https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/3.0a/tmux-3.0a.tar.gz
tar zxf tmux-3.0a.tar.gz
cd tmux-3.0a
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/.local/include -I$HOME/.local/include/ncurses" LDFLAGS="-static -L$HOME/.local/include -L$HOME/.local/include/ncurses -L$HOME/.local/lib"
make -j8
make install
Add folder to PATH
Add to your ~/.bashrc:
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
Finally, restart your shell and launch tmux.
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