{"id":3510,"date":"2016-02-17T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2021-02-06T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T07:27:01","slug":"how-to-install-htop-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-htop-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install htop in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Htop is a simple process monitoring program which runs in command line. If you find top a bit boring and like to have more colorful and interesting UI, \u2018htop\u2019 is for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Htop\u00a0<\/strong>utility goes advanced, by giving us additional information about the processes and also allow several manipulations:<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Colour meters<\/strong>shows you CPU load, memory usage at a glance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Supports user interaction<\/strong>using the mouse and keyboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sort process list<\/strong>such as CPU usage, memory, virtual memory and others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Fully customizable<\/strong>according to your needs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Help menu<\/strong> lists all possible commands (useful for beginners)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Search for a process<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Installation:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before proceeding with htop installation, at first we need to install\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/repoforge.org\/\">Repoforge<\/a>\u00a0(previously RPMForge), which will act as a repository from where we can get the files.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">wget http:\/\/packages.sw.be\/rpmforge-release\/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm\r\nrpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once done, you can then install htop by simply issuing the following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum install htop<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can then run htop by simply executing:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true  \">Htop<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Htop is a simple process monitoring program which runs in command line. 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