[celerity]

It's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but Exodus is really great for this use case. You can just run

  exodus htop | ssh my-server-name

and your local machine's copy of htop will be installed in your home directory on the remote machine (along with all of the dependencies).

[mynegation]

For the benefits of others: spent quite a bit of time googling that exodus thing (way too ubiquitous), and I think this is it: https://github.com/intoli/exodus