tmate is a fork of tmux . tmate and tmux can coexist on the same system, they do not conflict with each other. Mac OS X Boxen Ubuntu Arch From Source You need to have Homebrew installed as a prerequisite. brew update && \ brew tap nviennot/tmate && \ brew install tmate Here is a boxen recipe: homebrew::tap { 'nviennot/tmate': } -> package { 'tmate': ensure => present, } Ubuntu 12.04 and up have published packages for tmate. Please ask if you need support for more OSes. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties && \ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nviennot/tmate && \ sudo apt-get update && \ sudo apt-get install tmate Unofficial AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmate/ . To install, follow instructions from the Arch wiki . Grab the sources from github: https://github.com/nviennot/tmate . A few dependencies are required. T...