Downloads

The latest version is 2.0.2.

You can obtain it freely in two forms:

• Sources - source code, provided in this site
• Binaries - pre-compiled binaries, provided by distributions

What's new in htop 2.0.2:

• Mac OS X: stop trying when task_for_pid fails for a process, stops spamming logs with errors.
• Add Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E to go to beginning and end of line
• FreeBSD: fixes for CPU calculation (thanks to Tim Creech, Andy Pilate)
• Usability: auto-follow process after a search.
• Use Linux backend on GNU Hurd
• Improvement for reproducible builds.
• Fix behavior of Alt-key combinations (thanks to Kang-Che Sung)
• Various code tweaks and cleanups (thanks to Kang-Che Sung)

What's new in htop 2.0.1:

• OpenBSD: Various fixes and improvements (thanks to Michael McConville and Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado)
• FreeBSD: fix CPU and memory readings (thanks to Tim Creech, Hung-Yi Chen, Bernard Spil, Greg V)
• FreeBSD: add battery support (thanks to Greg V)
• Linux: Retain last-obtained name of a zombie process
• Mac OS X: Improve portability for OS X versions (thanks to Michael Klein)
• Mac OS X: Fix reading command-line arguments and basename
• Mac OS X: Fix process state information
• Mac OS X: Fix tree view collapsing/expanding
• Mac OS X: Fix tree organization
• Mac OS X: Fix memory accounting
• Fix crash when emptying a column of meters
• Make Esc key more responsive

What's new in htop 2.0.0:

• Platform abstraction layer
• Initial FreeBSD support
• Initial Mac OS X support (thanks to David Hunt)
• Swap meter for Mac OSX (thanks to Ștefan Rusu)
• OpenBSD port (thanks to Michael McConville)
• FreeBSD support improvements (thanks to Martin Misuth)
• Support for NCurses 6 ABI, including mouse wheel support
• Much improved mouse responsiveness
• Process environment variables screen (thanks to Michael Klein)
• Higher-resolution UTF-8 based Graph mode (Thanks to James Hall from vtop for the idea!)
• Show program path settings (thanks to Tobias Geerinckx-Rice)
• BUGFIX: Fix crash when scrolling an empty filtered list.
• Use dynamic units for text display, and several fixes (thanks to Christian Hesse)
• BUGFIX: fix error caused by overflow in usertime calculation. (thanks to Patrick Marlier)
• Catch all memory allocation errors (thanks to Michael McConville for the push)
• Several tweaks and bugfixes (See the Git log for details and contributors!)

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Sources

Building htop is straightforward, as it uses GNU Autotools: the typical ./configure; make; sudo make install should do the trick. However, you may prefer to use binaries packaged for your distribution, see below.

• Stable, tarball: Check out the latest version at the project page.
• Development, from the Git repository: You can fetch the work-in-progress sources for the next release using Git:
  git clone https://github.com/hishamhm/htop
  You can also browse the Git tree online.

If you like htop, feel free to buy the author a beer. :-)

Binaries

Packages for htop are available in most distros. Try the package manager from your system; chances are htop is available from there.

• GoboLinux: In GoboLinux you can fetch and compile htop by typing: Compile htop
• Debian: In Debian you can fetch htop by typing: apt-get install htop
  You can also download the binary packages from the Debian webpage.
  Thanks to Eugene Lyubimkin and Bartosz Fenski.
• Fedora: htop is part of Fedora Extras; you can fetch it by typing: yum install htop
  Thanks to Dawid Gajownik.
• RedHat: You can find RPM's for htop at DAG.
  Thanks to Dag Wieers. Also, you can find RHEL packages at EPEL (thanks to Josh Stone for the tip).
  
• Slackware: htop is part of Slackware. You can find it in the ap/ section.
  Thanks to Patrick Volkerding for including it, and to Fred Broders for earlier packages.
• Gentoo: In Gentoo Linux you can emerge the sys-process/htop package by typing: emerge sys-process/htop
  Thanks to Wolfram Schlich.
• AltLinux: here are the latest RPMs for AltLinux.
  Thanks to Ilya Evseev.
• OpenSuSE: htop is included in the OpenSuSE build service.
  Thanks to Timo Hoenig.

Known problems in older distributions: htop uses features of the C99 standard; therefore it fails to build with very old compilers.