ApacheTop INSTALL Instructions ApacheTop is now distributed with autoconf files, a nice easy way to build distributions whatever platform you're on. As easy as: cd apachetop-X.X/ ./configure make There's a few custom ./configure options and overrides: --with-logfile= (added in v0.11) You may specify the location of the default logfile to open. This overrides the #define in apachetop.h. Of course, you can just use -f on the apachetop commandline, but if you'll only ever use one log, you can give it to configure and never worry about it again. --with-pcre= (added in v0.11) Specifies where to find the pcre installation in the event it's not in your standard path. configure should look for /include/pcre.h and /lib/libpcre.* --with-fam= (added in v0.12) Specifies where to find the FAM installation. The path you give should contain include/fam.h and lib/libfam.* kqueue will be preferred to fam if both are found on the system. --with-pcre= (added in v0.12) Specifies where to find an adns installation. You'll find the binary as src/apachetop IF IT FAILS TO BUILD Make sure you have the -dev sources for readline and (n)curses. These contain files required to build binaries that use these libraries; for example on Debian you'll need the libreadline4-dev package installed.