How To Install tomcat9-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat9-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tomcat9-common
tomcat9-common is:
Apache Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Oracle, and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.
This package contains common files needed by the tomcat9 and tomcat9-user packages (Tomcat 9 scripts and libraries).
Package: tomcat9-common Architecture: all Version: 9.0.31-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/java Source: tomcat9 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 177 Depends: default-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime, libtomcat9-java (>= 9.0.31-1) Filename: pool/universe/t/tomcat9/tomcat9-common_9.0.31-1_all.deb Size: 59796 MD5sum: be54dcf3f017e27ed0de052bd1d69186 SHA1: a26b9d3b5717482bf557736ecbe30fe8afafd461 SHA256: 6acff2ddb8643a0a9eaf3c6172065f81fb0c7d697cbfd74d5926bfb5839056da Homepage: http://tomcat.apache.org Description-en: Apache Tomcat 9 - Servlet and JSP engine – common files Apache Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Oracle, and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.
This package contains common files needed by the tomcat9 and tomcat9-user packages (Tomcat 9 scripts and libraries).
There are three methods to install tomcat9-common on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tomcat9-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tomcat9-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tomcat9-common
Install tomcat9-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tomcat9-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tomcat9-common
Install tomcat9-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tomcat9-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tomcat9-common
How To Uninstall tomcat9-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tomcat9-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tomcat9-common
Uninstall tomcat9-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tomcat9-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomcat9-common
Remove tomcat9-common Configurations and Data
To remove tomcat9-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tomcat9-common
Remove tomcat9-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tomcat9-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomcat9-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat9-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
