Date: 11-11-2015

To install MultiTail on CentOS, enable the EPEL repository (if not already enabled) and then use the yum package manager to install it with the command sudo yum install multitail. This will install MultiTail, a utility that allows you to view and monitor multiple log files simultaneously in a single terminal window with features like color-coding and line filtering. 

CentOS 5 and Older

1. Install multitail w/yum

 sudo yum install multitail 

CentOS 6 and Newer

Enable the EPEL Repository (if needed)

For newer CentOS versions, the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository needs to be enabled first.

sudo yum install epel-release

Download the latest multitail installer:

1. Install gcc

 sudo yum install gcc 

2. Visit https://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/download.php to see what the latest version number is
3. In terminal on CentOS VM enter the following: a. For (CentOS 7 run the following first)

 sudo yum install wget 
 wget http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/multitail-6.4.2.tgz 

(replace 6.4.2 with version number from step 1.)

 tar xvfz multitail-6.4.2.tgz 
 pwd to get path to the download folder (save this for later) 

4. Install ncurses-devel (required for multitail to work)

 sudo yum install ncurses-devel 

5. Install multitail

 cd to location identified in step 2.c 

6. Run the following command:

 sudo make install