How To Install tomcatjss.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcatjss.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. tomcatjss.noarch is JSS Connector for Apache Tomcat, a JSSE module for Apache Tomcat

Introduction

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

What is `tomcatjss.noarch`

JSS Connector for Apache Tomcat, installed via the tomcatjss package, is a Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) module for Apache Tomcat that uses Java Security Services (JSS), a Java interface to Network Security Services (NSS). NOTE package because it uses an underlying NSS security model rather than the OpenSSL security model, so these two packages may not co-exist.

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

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

sudo yum -y install tomcatjss.noarch

How To Uninstall tomcatjss.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove tomcatjss.noarch

tomcatjss.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/tomcatjss-7.2.5
/usr/share/doc/tomcatjss-7.2.5/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tomcatjss-7.2.5/README
/usr/share/java/tomcatjss-7.2.5.jar
/usr/share/java/tomcatjss.jar

References

tomcatjss.noarch website

Summary

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