How to install htop

htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux, which is a powerful alternative to top utility.

Main features of htop:
– Supports mouse interactions
– Better sorting and selective display
– Color formatted display
– Resource graphs
– Process treeview
– Installing htop

To install htop to Redhat or CentOS Linux easily via the yum package manager. However sometimes it happens that yum repository doesn’t have that package, so the rpmforge package repository must be installed first. To install, retrieve, and install the following RPM for your architecture (32bit or 64bit).

32-BIT

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm

64-BIT

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm

Now that the rpmforge repository is installed, you can install the htop package easily via yum.

yum install htop