How To Install tomcat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tomcat.
Install tomcat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat
using yum
by running the following command:
Install tomcat on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall tomcat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tomcat
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.