Install htop from source

Htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and 2.6.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/htop/htop-0.8.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=superb-east
tar -xzvf htop-0.8.1.tar.gz
cd htop-0.8.1
./configure
make
make install

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Install via YUM:

I added the following to dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
Then ran yum install htop
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Install via RPM:
wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/htop/htop-0.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -i htop-0.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

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