# Install wemux with Homebrew, dnf, MacPorts, Nix

Enhances tmux's to provide multiuser terminal multiplexing. Version 3.2.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-21. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#wemux.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:wemux
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wemux
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install wemux
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/wemux/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install wemux
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wemux from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#wemux
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/we/wemux/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:wemux
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.2.0
- **Source summary:** Enhances tmux's to provide multiuser terminal multiplexing
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/zolrath/wemux>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/zolrath/wemux>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-21T13:00:32+01:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- wemux (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.2.0
## Project history and usage

wemux is a tmux-oriented collaboration wrapper whose README summarizes the project as making multi-user tmux sessions easier and more powerful. It lets one user host a tmux-backed server while other SSH users join in controlled modes.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in March 2012 and accumulated a long 1.x through 3.x tag history. Its design reflects a period when tmux had become the practical successor to older terminal multiplexing workflows, but pairing still required users to understand shared sockets, permissions, and tmux command details.

Rather than replacing tmux, wemux codified common multi-user session patterns. The README defines mirror mode for read-only observation, pair mode for a shared cursor, and rogue mode for independent windows inside the same session, with user listing and attach/detach notifications layered on top.

### Adoption history

wemux became a recognizable niche tool for remote pairing, demos, teaching, and server-side collaboration. The repository has several thousand stars, over a hundred forks, and an issue/PR history that shows continuing community use even though the project itself is small.

### How it is used

A host runs `wemux start` to create or reattach to the shared tmux server, while clients join with `wemux mirror`, `wemux pair`, or `wemux rogue`. The tool passes unknown commands through to tmux using its socket, so experienced tmux users can keep their normal command vocabulary while avoiding manual socket setup.

### Why package nerds care

wemux is package-nerd interesting because it is mostly glue: a small shell tool that made an existing Unix primitive friendlier for collaboration. Its value is not a new terminal multiplexer, but the packaging of a repeatable multi-user tmux convention.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/zolrath/wemux>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/zolrath/wemux/tags?per_page=20>
- <https://github.com/zolrath/wemux>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zolrath/wemux/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /usr/local/etc/wemux.conf
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - wemux: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/we/wemux/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - wemux - 3.2.0-25.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wemux from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Multi-user terminal multiplexing utility | https://github.com/zolrath/wemux
- MacPorts - wemux: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/wemux/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wemux.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/wemux.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph