Usually, the HTOP versions available on Ubuntu & CentOS, etc are quite the latest but there might be some delay between when new packages are available on the official channel vs when they are available on system repositories. Now, we can execute the yum command to install it, Install HTOP using the source package Htop packages for CentOS / RHEL are available on the EPEL repositories, so we must install the EPEL repos on our CentOS systems, if not installed. Simply run the following command to install it, Install HTOP in CentOS / RHEL Htop packages for Ubuntu are available on the default Ubuntu repositories, so we are not required to install any other repositories. Recommended Read: How to setup PasswordLess SSH in Linux? Also Read: Create your own WordPress Website from Scratch : Step by Step Install HTOP in Ubuntu / Debian In this tutorial, we will learn to install the HTOP command on Linux. But the HTOP command is quite an improvement over the TOP command. It is quite similar to the ‘top’ command, which comes pre-installed with almost all Linux distributions. It is a cross-platform, interactive process viewer. It provides information related to system processes, system memory, Load average, etc.

HTOP command is used to monitor our Linux system’s resources.

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