Building htop

Building htop

Below versions of htop are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions.

• Ubuntu 16.04 has 2.0.1
• Ubuntu 17.10 has 2.0.2
• Ubuntu 18.04 has 2.1.0

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build htop v2.2.0 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (6.9,7.3, 7.4)
• SLES (11 SP4, 12 SP2, 12 SP3)
• Ubuntu (16.04, 17.10, 18.04)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writeable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

1. Install the dependencies

• RHEL (6.9, 7.3, 7.4)

   sudo yum install ncurses ncurses-devel gcc make wget tar python

• SLES (11 SP4, 12 SP2, 12 SP3)

   sudo zypper install ncurses ncurses-devel gcc make wget tar python

• Ubuntu (16.04, 17.10, 18.04)

   sudo apt-get install gcc make wget tar libncursesw5 libcunit1-ncurses libncursesw5-dev python

2. Download and unpack the htop 2.2.0 source code

    cd /<source_root>/
    wget http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/2.2.0/htop-2.2.0.tar.gz
    tar xvzf htop-2.2.0.tar.gz

3. Configure and build htop-2.2.0

    cd /<source_root>/htop-2.2.0
    ./configure
    make

4. Run test cases if any(optional)

    make check

5. Install htop

    sudo  make install

6. Launch htop to monitor system

    htop 

Note: For a list of supported key commands see the manual page man htop on ubuntu.

References:

• https://hisham.hm/htop/