ieverx/tmux-appimage repository overview

⁠Tmux AppImage

⁠What is this?

Dockerfile to create an AppImage of tmux.

⁠Why use Docker?

The advantages to doing it this way are:

• Obtain consistent build results on any computer.
• No need to install a slew of build packages on your own machine.
• You can trust the tmux developers code, not some rando's AppImage distribution on the interwebz :p

⁠How do build it?

## clone me
git clone https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tmux-appimage.git

## compile tmux from source by building container
docker build . -t tmux  

## extract the appimage file
docker create -ti --name tmuxcontainer tmux bash
docker cp tmuxcontainer:/opt/releases/tmux-3.1c-x86_64.AppImage .
docker rm -f tmuxcontainer

⁠To use AppImage

move appimage to executable location in your $PATH

mv tmux.*AppImage /usr/local/bin/tmux

tmux

⁠Where has the AppImage been tested to turn?

It has been tested on these fine Linux platforms and will likely work for anything newer than centos 6.9 (which is a few years old now.) Please file an issue if you find otherwise or need support on a different platform.

ubuntu 18
centos 6.9
centos 7.6
fedora 31

⁠What is the sauce that makes this work?

The Dockerfile⁠ contains all the magic ingredients to compile tmux.

./opt/build.sh⁠ creates the AppImage from binary using linuxdeploy tool.