Ubuntu – Is htop not aviable for Ubuntu touch

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I recently noticed some UI-refreshrate-drops on my Nexus4 running Ubuntu Touch and wanted to see if I could find a process standing out in cpu usage etc. I wanted to install htop in the console app, but it couldn't be found. I researched this and it seems that htop is not available on purpose.

Why is this? And, if you know, can you suggest me any other monitoring tool, cli (preferred) or app for touch (despite top)?

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sudo su -
cd /home/phablet/Downloads

download deb file, e.g: from debian wheezy repositories:

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/htop/htop_1.0.1-1_armhf.deb

remount root filesystem to read-write (I use the bellow command on my bq aquaris. Your filesystem name you can find by df -h /)

mount /dev/mmcvlk0p6 -o remount,rw
dpkg -i htop_1.0.1-1_armhf.deb

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