Downgrade tmux to 1.8 in jail

[NasKar]

I'm running freenas 9.3 and need to downgrade Tmux 2.1 to 1.8. I found some info on the web that said to go to
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade
make DEFAULT_CVS_SERVER=\freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs install clean
portdowngrade tmux

But there is no portdowngrade directory in sysutils.
I ran make DEFAULT_CVS_SERVER=\freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs install clean from the sysutils directory and got a bunch of errors.

 

[dlavigne]

I stand corrected: pkg install portdowngrade.

 

[NasKar]

That didn't create the portdowngrade directory. Where do I run make DEFAULT_CVS_SERVER=\freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs install clean and portdowngrade tmux ?

 

[dlavigne]

You don't, those instructions are ancient. You want to install that software and can do so using the command I gave you.

 

[NasKar]

I ran the command from the root of my jail and it worked but I don't know what to do next to downgrade to 1.8 tmux

 

[dlavigne]

Did you try running portdowngrade tmux ? Note that this command will only succeed if an earlier version of tmux is available in the package repository...

 

[NasKar]

portdowngrade tmux
tmux-cssh-20150518 -> security/tmux-cssh
tmux-2.1_1 -> sysutils/tmux

Choose a port origin (directory) from the list
above, and then run portdowngrade category/port

Is there a way to get the old version in the package repository?

 

[dlavigne]

Follow the instructions in the output:

Choose a port origin (directory) from the list
above, and then run portdowngrade category/port

portdowngrade sysutils/tmux

 

[NasKar]

dlavigne, Thanks for you help. The error message indicated that I don't have the correct URL for the repository. Any idea how to fix it?

portdowngrade sysutils/tmux
Choose a revision from this list and run /usr/local/sbin/portdowngrade sysutils/tmux revision
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/tmux'
svn: E000065: Error running context: No route to host
Choose a revision from the above list and run /usr/local/sbin/portdowngrade sysutils/tmux revision

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve your situation? It doesn't look like it is possible to downgrade...

 

[NasKar]

Had to reinstall the jail/ software. If I type pkg install tmux it want to do 2.1. Can I install 2.0 if it has not been installed yet? If so what would the command be?

 

[dlavigne]

Nope. According to freshports.org, 2.1.1 is the only version available.

 

[fracai]

Can you comment on why you need to downgrade to 1.8? Perhaps there's an alternate solution that wouldn't require using an old version.

 

[NasKar]

https://github.com/nZEDb/nZEDb/wiki/Operational-Modii
Look under tmux General/Notes:
Can use 2.0 and lower.

 

[fracai]

Ah. Well, I'd think you could always install it from source.

 

[NasKar]

Could you explain in detail how to do that? I just learning linux.

 

[fracai]

Download the source for the version that you need: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases
Review the readme file: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/README
Note the installation instructions:

tmux depends on libevent 2.x. Download it from: http://libevent.org

It mentions needing libevent, so first make sure you have that port installed: pkg install devel/libevent2
Now you can compile:

To build tmux from a release tarball, do:
$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install

You'll first need to extract the tarball and cd in to the resulting directory.
Also, as you'll be installing an older version for this specific project, it's a good idea to install it to a custom directory:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/custom/tmux-custom && make
$ sudo make install

If Modii needs tmux in a specific location or you can specify the location to Modii you can decide where tmux can/need be installed.
If you do install it to a custom directory, you will need to add that location to your path or run tmux using an absolute path. Also, tmux versions aren't always compatible so you won't be able to connect to an existing session with a different version. Basically, you probably shouldn't have more than one version of tmux installed at a time.

I think that covers it. Some of this is dependent on how Modii needs to find tmux and I have no experience there.

 

[NasKar]

Wow fracai thank you. I will try it out tonight and let u know

 

[fracai]

we all started somewhere

post if anything doesn't work correctly

 

[NasKar]

Ok bear with me. I'm lost. Tried to follow the directions.:(:(
I created in my jail the directory
/usr/local/custom/
pkg install devel/libevent2
pkg install wget
wget https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/1.9/tmux-1.9.tar.gz
tar xvfz tmux-1.9.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.9
in /usr/local/custom/tmux-1.9/ tar xvfz libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz

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configure: error: "libevent not found"
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