htop

htop

interactive process viewer

curl -fsSL https://unflab.app/get | sh -s -- htop

Installs to ~/.local/bin. Add --prefix /usr/local/bin to
put it somewhere else, or --uninstall to remove it.

Why it’s here

Escapes a dependency tree: Homebrew’s build pulls in libraries this tool never touches at run time.

Details

Built from that exact tarball, with its SHA-256 pinned in the
recipe. The binary links against nothing outside /usr/lib
and /System/, checked in CI before release.

htop is an interactive process viewer — a far friendlier top, with
per-core CPU meters, a process tree, searching, and killing processes
without typing PIDs.

htop
htop -u $USER        # only your processes
htop -t              # start in tree view

man htop has the rest, and F1 inside htop lists the keys.

Install

./install.sh                      # into ~/.local/bin
./install.sh --prefix /usr/local/bin
./install.sh --uninstall

About this build

brew install htop brings its own ncurses. This build compiles ncurses
6.6 from source and links it statically, so the binary needs no shared
library beyond libSystem and the IOKit and CoreFoundation frameworks
macOS provides — not even macOS’s own libncurses.

That static ncurses is also what makes unicode work. macOS ships only a
narrow ncurses with no libncursesw, and htop’s unicode support needs
one; earlier versions of this package were built --disable-unicode for
that reason. Now the tree view draws with proper box-drawing characters
(│ ├ └ ─) and the sort column with △/▽, rather than |, + and
-. The CPU and memory meters use | either way.

Terminal descriptions come from macOS’s own database at
/usr/share/terminfo; nothing is installed to duplicate it.

Upstream

• Home: https://htop.dev/
• Source: https://github.com/htop-dev/htop
• Version: 3.5.3
• Licence: GPL-2.0-or-later (see LICENSE)

htop is Hisham Muhammad’s work, now maintained by the htop team. unflab
only compiles and packages it.