Tmux installation problems

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Tmux installation problems
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See also:
http://superuser.com/questions/219095/tmux-compilation-error-in-andlinux-ubuntu

Quoting the answer from there:

I just found out that libevent-dev that comes in ubuntu repository wasn’t new enough. It worked fine after I installed the latest version of libevent from source. Remember to remove the libevent-dev if you’ve already installed it via apt-get.

by izakaya27 from http://serverfault.com/questions/382912