Tmate is a terminal sharing program that allows multiple users to share a command-line session in real-time. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Tmate on Manjaro.
Before we start, we need to ensure that we have the following prerequisites:
The Tmate is not available in the official Manjaro repository, so we need to install it using the AUR (Arch User Repository). Follow these steps to install Tmate:
Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T or by searching for terminal in the application launcher.
Update the packages list and upgrade the existing ones:
sudo pacman -Syu
Install git and the base-devel package group:
sudo pacman -S git base-devel
Clone the Tmate repository from the AUR:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tmate.git
Enter the cloned directory:
cd tmate
Build and install the package using makepkg:
makepkg -si
Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of Tmate by running:
tmate -V
That’s it! You have successfully installed Tmate on Manjaro.
Once Tmate is installed, you can start using it by following these steps:
Open the terminal and start a new Tmate session by running:
tmate
Share your Tmate session by giving the generated SSH command to the person you want to share the terminal with. The SSH command will look something like this:
ssh <username>@<hostname> -p <port-number>
To terminate the Tmate session, you can use Ctrl + C.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Tmate on Manjaro using the AUR. We also learned how to start and terminate a Tmate session. Tmate is a powerful tool that can help you collaborate with others in real-time.
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