How To Install tomcat9-docs on Debian 10

Learn how to install tomcat9-docs on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tomcat9-docs is Apache Tomcat 9 - Servlet and JSP engine – documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat9-docs on Debian 10.

What is tomcat9-docs

tomcat9-docs 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 the online documentation web application.

There are three methods to install tomcat9-docs on Debian 10. 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-docs 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-docs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tomcat9-docs

Install tomcat9-docs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tomcat9-docs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tomcat9-docs

Install tomcat9-docs 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tomcat9-docs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tomcat9-docs

How To Uninstall tomcat9-docs on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tomcat9-docs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tomcat9-docs

Uninstall tomcat9-docs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tomcat9-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomcat9-docs

Remove tomcat9-docs Configurations and Data

To remove tomcat9-docs configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tomcat9-docs

Remove tomcat9-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tomcat9-docs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomcat9-docs

Dependencies

tomcat9-docs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat9-docs package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.