How To Install tomcat.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. tomcat.noarch is Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.0/JSP 2.2 API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is tomcat.noarch

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

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

Install tomcat.noarch 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.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tomcat.noarch

How To Uninstall tomcat.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tomcat.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tomcat.noarch

tomcat.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat
/etc/sysconfig/tomcat
/etc/tomcat
/etc/tomcat/Catalina
/etc/tomcat/Catalina/localhost
/etc/tomcat/catalina.policy
/etc/tomcat/catalina.properties
/etc/tomcat/conf.d
/etc/tomcat/conf.d/README
/etc/tomcat/context.xml
/etc/tomcat/log4j.properties
/etc/tomcat/logging.properties
/etc/tomcat/server.xml
/etc/tomcat/tomcat-users.xml
/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf
/etc/tomcat/web.xml
/usr/bin/tomcat-digest
/usr/bin/tomcat-tool-wrapper
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/tomcat
/usr/libexec/tomcat/functions
/usr/libexec/tomcat/preamble
/usr/libexec/tomcat/server
/usr/sbin/tomcat
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-7.0.76
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-7.0.76/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-7.0.76/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/tomcat-7.0.76/RELEASE-NOTES
/usr/share/tomcat
/usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar
/usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml
/usr/share/tomcat/conf
/usr/share/tomcat/lib
/usr/share/tomcat/logs
/usr/share/tomcat/temp
/usr/share/tomcat/webapps
/usr/share/tomcat/work
/var/cache/tomcat
/var/cache/tomcat/temp
/var/cache/tomcat/work
/var/lib/tomcat
/var/lib/tomcat/webapps
/var/lib/tomcats
/var/log/tomcat
/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out

References

Summary

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