Comment 2 for bug 294599

Here's a patch from Fedora that fixes the problem. Will somebody merge this into the package? I don't know how that works.

You can rebuild this from source if you want to use it now. Just do:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev libncurses-dev

to get the appropriates files needed to compile. Then do:

apt-get source apachetop

and from inside the apachetop source directory:

patch -p1 < apachetop-0.12.6-maxpathlen.patch
./configure && make install

will do the trick.