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Installing htop on CentOS


Installing htop on CentOS

When trying to

yum install htop

on a CentOS server you’ll probably get the following error:

...................Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: htop
Nothing to do

Reason for this error is, htop is only available through RPM’s for redhat based systems. Here’s a workaround.

Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Dag.repo and add the following:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
enabled=1
includepkgs=htop*

Congrats! You can now easily install htop with ‘yum install htop’

Why use htop instead of top? Here’s a nice comparison: http://www.dotkam.com/2007/04/16/sexy-top-vs-more-human-htop/

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