htop

Hey there!
I share the wish to have htop (and I'd also like dstat) on my xmbc system, which in my case is an raspberry pi2 armv7 system, not x86_64 - running LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-7.90.008 alpha.

I've found that the xmbc repository "SuperRepo" [deleted] contains an htop package, and I managed to install the repository on my system and found htop using the search, but the install button doesn't install but only gets me back up one level.

Also I've found this forum entry:
openelec 4.1 unofficial repo - WeTek Community Forum
in which an addon.xml was posted that contains both htop and dstat. But sadly first I have no idea what to do with an addon.xml and secondly 4.1 sounds like hugely out of date since we're at 7.90.

Comments? Hints? Help? Thanks

LibreELEC.tv/packages/escalade/sysutils/dstat at emu · escalade/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
LibreELEC.tv/packages/escalade/sysutils/htop at emu · escalade/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

htop needs updated netbsd-curses.

okey? illegal & banned repositories? Sorry, I had no idea such a thing existed.

escalade thanks for links related to what I was asking for, dstat & htop.
Would you (or anybody else who finds the time and knows) be so kind to explain what to do with those links, is there a way to install one or both of these tools on LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-7.90.008 alpha?

kaefert The repo which doesn't exist contains an x86_64 binary only, so you can't install it on a RPI. Anyway, what works for me:
1. Get a modroot. See thread-903.html for details.
2. Download the debian htop package for armhf ( Debian -- Package Download Selection -- htop_1.0.3-1_armhf.deb ), libncurses ( Debian -- Package Download Selection -- libncurses5_5.9+20140913-1+b1_armhf.deb ), libncuresw ( Debian -- Package Download Selection -- libncursesw5_5.9+20140913-1+b1_armhf.deb ) and libtinfo ( Debian -- Package Download Selection -- libtinfo5_5.9+20140913-1+b1_armhf.deb ) to a linux machine.
3. On the linux machine do:

mkdir htop && cd htop
ar x /path/to/the/downloaded/htop.deb
tar xJf data.tar.xz
rm data.tar.xz control.tar.gz
ar x /path/to/the/downloaded/libncurses5.deb
tar xJf data.tar.xz
rm data.tar.xz control.tar.gz
ar x /path/to/the/downloaded/libncursesw.deb
tar xJf data.tar.xz
rm data.tar.xz control.tar.gz
ar x /path/to/the/downloaded/libtinfo.deb
tar xJf data.tar.xz
mkdir out
mkdir out/bin
mkdir out/lib
mv usr/bin/htop out/bin/
mv lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/*.so.5.9 out/lib/
mv usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/*.so.5.9 out/lib/
cd out
scp -Crp * root@libreelec:/storage/modroot/

Then, on the RPI, do:

cd /storage/modroot/lib/
ln -s libform.so.5.9 libform.so.5
ln -s libmenu.so.5.9 libmenu.so.5
ln -s libncurses.so.5.9 libncurses.so.5
ln -s libpanel.so.5.9 libpanel.so.5
ln -s libformw.so.5.9 libformw.so.5
ln -s libmenuw.so.5.9 libmenuw.so.5
ln -s libncursesw.so.5.9 libncursesw.so.5
ln -s libpanelw.so.5.9 libpanelw.so.5
ln -s libtic.so.5.9 libtic.so.5
ln -s libtinfo.so.5.9 libtinfo.so.5

So far so good. Now we're just hitting a LibreELEC bug ($TERM pointing to xterm but ofc. xterm isn't available for the RPI) so we get:

LibreELEC:~ # htop
Error opening terminal: xterm.

OpenELEC had a very handy unofficial addons repo that included a good number of handy tools like htop.

I'd really like to see the same happen for LibreELEC.

Quote from CvH

this is already happen since LE7

system-tools addon:

autossh, diffutils, dtach, efibootmgr, evtest, fdupes, file, getscancodes, hddtemp, hd-idle, hid_mapper, i2c-tools, inotify-tools, jq, lm_sensors, lshw, mc, mrxvt, mtpfs, nmon, p7zip, patch, pv, screen, strace, unrar and usb-modeswitch

Yep and that's great but htop is not currently on that list. I realise the list could be infinite, but perhaps any reasonable utilities that were previously available, would be a good start, assuming htop is still available for supported LibreELEC architectures.

Any chance to add iftop and some tool to check CPU temperature to system tools?

Thank you!

netwoork-tools seems to be missing from the repo using nightly atleast, anyone know why?