How To Install tomcat on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat in Fedora 36. tomcat is Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 4.0/JSP 2.3 API

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/).