Tmux

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, and probably one of the most important programs you can install if you are using command line interfaces.

Setup

While Debian does have a binary version of it, it's too old. So let's download and install in and the software it depends on from source.

We will need to download an Alpha version of libevent. I don't really trust any software older than the Heartbleed incident. Fortunately, a Beta version was just released.

cd ~/Software
curl -SL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/levent/libevent/libevent-2.0/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz | tar xzv
curl -SL http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/ncurses.tar.gz | tar xzv
curl -SL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.9a.tar.gz | tar xzv
cd libevent-2.0.22-stable/
./configure && make && sudo make install
cd ../ncurses-5.9/
./configure && make && sudo make install
cd ../tmux-1.9a/
./configure && make && sudo make install

Once that is done, you can run tmux.

See Also

• Vim
• Powerline

External Links

• http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
• http://libevent.org/
• http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/