How To Install tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-native.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tomcat-native.x86_64 is Tomcat native library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tomcat-native.x86_64`

Tomcat can use the Apache Portable Runtime to provide superior scalability, performance, and better integration with native server technologies. The Apache Portable Runtime is a highly portable library that is at the heart of Apache HTTP Server 2.x. APR has many uses, including access to advanced IO functionality (such as sendfile, epoll and OpenSSL), OS level functionality (random number generation, system status, etc), and native process handling (shared memory, NT pipes and Unix sockets). This package contains the Tomcat native library which provides support for using APR in Tomcat.

We can use yum to install tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tomcat-native.x86_64.

Install tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tomcat-native.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tomcat-native.x86_64

How To Uninstall tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tomcat-native.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tomcat-native.x86_64

tomcat-native.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libtcnative-1.so
/usr/lib64/libtcnative-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtcnative-1.so.0.2.30
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-native-1.2.30
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-native-1.2.30/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-native-1.2.30/TODO.txt
/usr/share/licenses/tomcat-native-1.2.30
/usr/share/licenses/tomcat-native-1.2.30/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/tomcat-native-1.2.30/NOTICE

References

tomcat-native.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-native.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.