How to install Htop in Ubuntu

Installation of Htop

The installation of Htop requires certain prerequisites. Use the following command for the same.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  build-essential
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 416 not upgraded.
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Setting up build-essential (12.1ubuntu2) ...

Now install the dependencies by using the below command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libtinfo-dev
Suggested packages:
  ncurses-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libtinfo-dev
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 416 not upgraded.
Need to get 450 kB of archives.
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Setting up libncurses5-dev:amd64 (6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libncursesw5-dev:amd64 (6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1) ...

Download the Htop package by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/2.0.2/htop-2.0.2.tar.gz
--2016-11-15 04:59:42--  http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/2.0.2/htop-2.0.2.tar.gz
Resolving hisham.hm (hisham.hm)... 69.163.217.231
Connecting to hisham.hm (hisham.hm)|69.163.217.231|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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2016-11-15 04:59:46 (150 KB/s) - ‘ htop-2.0.2.tar.gz’  saved [476364/476364]

Once the Htop package is downloaded, extract it by using the ' tar' command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# tar xvfz htop-2.0.2.tar.gz
htop-2.0.2/
htop-2.0.2/ColumnsPanel.h
htop-2.0.2/config.h.in
htop-2.0.2/Settings.c
htop-2.0.2/SignalsPanel.c
htop-2.0.2/StringUtils.c
htop-2.0.2/AvailableColumnsPanel.h
htop-2.0.2/BatteryMeter.c
htop-2.0.2/CPUMeter.h
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htop-2.0.2/UsersTable.h
htop-2.0.2/Affinity.c

Now change the directory for the extracted file.

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd htop-2.0.2/
root@linuxhelp1:~/htop-2.0.2#

Use the following command to run ./configure.

root@linuxhelp1:~/htop-2.0.2# ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
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config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

root@linuxhelp1:~/htop-2.0.2# make
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -DNDEBUG  -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DSYSCONFDIR=" /usr/local/etc"  -I" ./linux"  -rdynamic  -g -O2 -MT htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/htop-AvailableMetersPanel.Tpo -c -o htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o `test -f ' AvailableMetersPanel.c'  || echo ' ./' `AvailableMetersPanel.c
mv -f .deps/htop-AvailableMetersPanel.Tpo .deps/htop-AvailableMetersPanel.Po
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make[1]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 

root@linuxhelp1:~/htop-2.0.2# make install
make  install-am
make[1]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 
make[2]: Entering directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 
 /bin/mkdir -p ' /usr/local/bin' 
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make[2]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 
make[1]: Leaving directory ' /home/user1/htop-2.0.2' 

root@linuxhelp1:~/htop-2.0.2# htop