How To Install tomcat on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat on Fedora 36.
What is tomcat
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 or dnf to install tomcat on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tomcat.
Install tomcat on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tomcat
Install tomcat on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tomcat
How To Uninstall tomcat on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the tomcat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tomcat
tomcat Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat.disabled
/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/conf.d/java-9-start-up-parameters.conf
/etc/tomcat/context.xml
/etc/tomcat/jaspic-providers.xml
/etc/tomcat/jaspic-providers.xsd
/etc/tomcat/logging.properties
/etc/tomcat/server.xml
/etc/tomcat/tomcat-users.xml
/etc/tomcat/tomcat-users.xsd
/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
/usr/share/doc/tomcat/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tomcat/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/tomcat/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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).