$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev On Debian and Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install build-essential On RHEL/CentOS and Fedora # yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' To install Htop 2.0.2 version, you must have Development Tools and Ncurses installed on your system, to do so run the following series of commands on your respective distributions. In Debian and Ubuntu, you can fetch htop by typing: # sudo apt-get install htopĬompile and Install Htop from Source Packages

# yum install htopįedora users can easily install htop using Fedora Extras repository by typing: # yum install htop Once EPEL repository has been installed, you can hit the following yum command to fetch and install the htop package as shown. On RHEL/CentOS – 64-bit OS - For RHEL/CentOS 7. On RHEL/CentOS – 32-bit OS - For RHEL/CentOS 6. To install Htop on RHEL 7/6/5 and CentOS 7/6/5, your system must have EPEL repository installed and enabled, to do so run the following commands on your respective distributions to install and enable it for your system architecture ( 32bit or 64bit). Important: Following binary installation, will give you the available htop version 1.0.3 or 1.0.2 in most distributions, so if you’re looking for Htop 2.0.2 version, then I recommend you to follow Source installation section as shown below: Install Htop Using Binary Packages in Linux

Press “e” to print the set of environment variables for a process.

In htop you no longer needed to enter process number or priority value to re-nice a process.

In htop you can kill more than one processes at once without inserting their PIDs.

It starts very quickly as compared top, because it doesn’t wait to fetch data during startup.

In htop you can scroll vertically to view the full process list, and scroll horizontally to view the full command lines.

Htop has numerous other user-friendly features, which are not available under top command and they are:

Htop is an interactive real time process monitoring application for Linux/Unix like systems and also a handy alternative to top command, which is default process monitoring tool that comes with pre-installed on all Linux operating systems.

Centos 7 install htop