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Awesome! Installing htop is the first thing I do on my *nix systems. The update is still not up on Homebrew, shouldn't take long though.

Perhaps you're referring to Linuxbrew - "a fork of Homebrew, the Mac OS package manager, for Linux."

It exposes the same repository as its OSX counterpart, with linux-flavoured customisations where necessary.

From feature list at http://linuxbrew.sh/

- Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo

- Install software not packaged by the native distribution

- Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old

- Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines

Nope, I am talking about Homebrew, it provides the best way to install htop on OSX.

The htop package on Homebrew is a fork of the original for OS X called htop-osx.

Didn't know that! Thanks for sharing.

I hope the fork will be deprecated now for the official one. There's already a related issue on the repo.

FWIW, I did an install from source and it was totally painless--no dependencies to track down. ./configure, make, sudo make install and you're done.

Cool, thanks for sharing! I'll still prefer waiting for a Homebrew update, too addicted to the comfort of package managers :).