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Just a quick post on how easy it is to set up the invaluable htop package on the Netgear RN312. For those not familiar with htop, it’s a super-powered process monitor, way way better than the old legacy top command. Nice stuff, must have.
Turns out the pre-built package for htop is borked though (apt-get install htop fails) . Bummer. Time to pull out the command line magic..
ssh into the NAS, then set up a build environment and a couple of dependencies. Compile and install (set the debconf to dialog and medium level):
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
apt-get install build-essential
<wait for looooong time>
cd /root/dl
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/htop/htop/1.0.2/htop-1.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf htop-1.0.2.tar.gz
./configure; make; make install
Fail:
checking for refresh in -lncursesw… no
configure: error: You may want to use –disable-unicode or install libncursesw.
Ok, so let’s fix that, we need dev libs:
apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
./configure; make; make install
Fail 2, we need another set of ncurses dev libs:
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
./configure; make; make install
… and that does it. Enjoy htop on your x86 based Netgear ReadyNAS!