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Comment by mschonfeld | Hacker News Reader

Seems to run decently on my Mac 10.8

Could you share how you got this to work on your Mac?

  % wget https://github.com/downloads/nicolargo/glances/glances-1.4.tar.gz
  % tar zxvf glances-1.4.tar.gz
  % cd glances-1.4
  % sudo python setup.py install

I got this working by just installing pip and then entering "sudo pip install glances".

I have to say, I think this will replace htop for me on my mac. It's actually more useful than Activity Monitor is since it also shows network interfaces.

Another way to install this on OSX if you use Homebrew package manager.

1. Install Homebrew if you don't have it already

  http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

2. Install the brew-pip package

  brew install brew-pip

3. Add Homebrew's pip path to your PYTHONPATH environment variable (you probably should add this to some sort of shell initialization file like ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc)

  export PYTHONPATH=$(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.7/site-packages

3. Now install any pip pacakges with Homebrew!

  brew pip Glances

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