How To Install htop on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install htop on Rocky Linux 8.

What is htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Linux, similar to top(1).

We can use yum or dnf to install htop on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install htop.

Install htop on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install htop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install htop

Install htop on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install htop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install htop

How To Uninstall htop on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the htop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove htop

htop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/htop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/e43158b80aff24bb1161bba3011afa3e659865
/usr/share/applications/htop.desktop
/usr/share/doc/htop
/usr/share/doc/htop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/htop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/htop/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/htop.svg
/usr/share/licenses/htop
/usr/share/licenses/htop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/htop.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/htop.png

References

• htop website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install htop on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.