I use htop. I tried glances as I heard good things about it. It is nice, I like ...

lqdc13 · on Feb 11, 2016

Were you adding it through apt-get or pip? With apt-get it's fairly painless.

    apt-cache depends glances

  Depends: python-psutil
  Depends: <python:any>
    python:i386
    python
  Depends: <python:any>
    python:i386
    python
  Depends: python
  Depends: python-pkg-resources
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: lsb-base
  Recommends: python-jinja2

rdtsc · on Feb 11, 2016

apt-get. It was painless, and I have the diskspace so not a big deal. Looking at package properties I see it recommends a bunch of packages, so it installed those and their deps (this is Ubuntu 15.10):

    hddtemp, lm-sensors, python3-docker,
    python3-bottle, python3-pysnmp4, 
    python3-influxdb ...

kbar13 · on Feb 11, 2016

optional dependencies are optional for a reason, no real reason to bring it up as a con.

rdtsc · on Feb 11, 2016

I just described by experience of installing it. It wasn't a huge issue, I installed them anyway after all.