Installation

Unlike Top, its newer sibling - Htop is better in every way. It provides more detailed information, supports colours and is more configurable. Htop is available in the repositories of most distros. However, CentOS (and therefore, RHEL) is not one of them. While it it apparently available in the EPEL repositories, I could not find it for CentOS 4.9. In any event, what we have below are the (simple) steps to install it from the source packages:

This is something of a personal reminder of the stuff I do after a fresh installation of Kubuntu:

• Install the following apps:
  1. synaptic
  2. firefox
  3. pidgin
  4. whois
  5. traceroute
  6. sun-javaX-jre
  7. sun-javaX-plugin
  8. sun-javaX-fonts
  9. vlc
  10. mplayer
  11. vim
  12. vim-gtk
  13. msttcorefonts
  14. qcomicbook
  15. flashplugin-nonfree
  16. unrar
  17. unace

If you ever run into an error along the lines of 1155 instmsi30.exe not found specifying a directory, usually your CD-ROM drive, you need to update your Windows installer.