Simply install htop by running the following command: sudo apt-get install htop For directions on enabling EPEL see our article How to enable EPEL repository? Once you have enabled the EPEL repo you can run: Since htop is not provided in the default repository you cannot install it before you enable EPEL. To install htop on CentOS style servers you will need to enable the EPEL repository. To follow the installation directions you will need to be SSH’d into your server as the root user and will need to select the command that matches your OS: Below we will provide the command used to install htop on most common Linux distros. The installation process for htop will differ depending on your servers Linux distribution. If you are provided the path to htop this means it’s currently installed on your system and you can move past the installation section.

If you see the same, or similar, output to the above then you can continue with the installation of htop.

Note: If htop is currently installed you will not see an error and will be provided the path to the program. If htop is not installed the results will look as follows:

Now logged in you can use the `which` command to check if top is installed.

First you’ll want to start by logging into your server via SSH:.

First you’ll need to ensure it’s installed on the server and if not, we’ll try to get it installed. So now that you know the basics of how htop differs from top, lets get to using it. Most are in areas where top shows some of its age for example, in htop you can scroll the list of processes vertically and horizontally to see all the process info.Īnother benefit is that htop seems to start significantly faster, generally when using top there is a bit of a delay while the program loads up some initial data. With htop you are provided the same functionality as top, however it provides some needed improvements. Htop, or Hisham’s top, is an interactive process viewer for Unix systems.

You can read our article on using top, if you are not familiar with the tool. Note: This post assumes you have working knowledge of top.

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