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 ```
 mkdir tmp_tmux
 git clone https://gitlab.version.fz-juelich.de/chraibi1/tmux.git tmp_tmux
-cp -r tmp/tmux/* ~
+cp -r tmp_tmux/* ~
 rm -r tmp_tmux
 tmux
 ```