In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Htop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, htop is a process-viewer and manager for interactive system monitoring and management. It allows scrolling the list of processes vertically and horizontally to see their full command lines and related information like memory and CPU consumption. Also system-wide information, like load average or swap usage.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Htop interactive process viewer on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install Htop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Step 2. Installing Htop on Ubuntu 22.04.
By default, Htop is available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to install the latest version of Htop to your Ubuntu system:
sudo apt install htop
Verify your Htop installation by checking its version:
htop --version
Step 3. Accessing Htop on Ubuntu 22.04.
Once successfully installed on your Ubuntu system, run the following path on your desktop to open the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Htop or launching it through the terminal with the command shown below:
htop
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Htop. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Htop process-viewer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Htop website.