Install htop

htop provides a graphical view of processor and memory capability and usage. It is pretty handy on the MFEL to work out if the limit of the processor(s) is being reached. It's a much more capable indicator of resource usage than the MFEL GUI performance indicator.

Install Htop Using Binary Packages in Linux

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).

On RHEL/CentOS – 32-bit OS

————– For RHEL/CentOS 6 ————–

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

————– For RHEL/CentOS 5 ————–

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

On RHEL/CentOS – 64-bit OS

————– For RHEL/CentOS 7 ————–

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm

————– For RHEL/CentOS 6 ————–

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

————– For RHEL/CentOS 5 ————–

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ihv epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Once EPEL repository has been installed, you can hit the following yum command to fetch and install the htop package as shown.

yum install htop

On Fedora OS

Fedora users can easily install htop using Fedora Extras repository by typing:

yum install htop
dnf install htop [On Fedora 22+ releases]

On Debian and Ubuntu

In Debian and Ubuntu, you can fetch htop by typing:

sudo apt-get install htop