How To Install tomcat10 on Debian 12

Learn how to install tomcat10 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tomcat10 is Apache Tomcat 10 - Servlet and JSP engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat10 on Debian 12.

What is tomcat10

tomcat10 is:

Apache Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Oracle, and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.

This package contains only the startup scripts for the system-wide daemon. No documentation or web applications are included here, please install the tomcat10-docs and tomcat10-examples packages if you want them. Install tomcat10-user instead of this package if you don’t want Tomcat to start as a service.

There are three methods to install tomcat10 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tomcat10 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tomcat10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tomcat10

Install tomcat10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tomcat10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tomcat10

Install tomcat10 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tomcat10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tomcat10

How To Uninstall tomcat10 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tomcat10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tomcat10

Uninstall tomcat10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tomcat10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomcat10

Remove tomcat10 Configurations and Data

To remove tomcat10 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tomcat10

Remove tomcat10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tomcat10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomcat10

Dependencies

tomcat10 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat10 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.