Red Hat Installation - Newbie: How to install Tomcat on Redhat ?

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Newbie: How to install Tomcat on Redhat ?

Torvalds

2006-05-05, 1:19 pm

Hi,

Anyone know how I can install Tomcat webserver on RHEL 4 with all
dependencies?

Are there any programs similar to YAST (in Suse) to aid with installations?

Thanks!

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

2006-05-05, 1:19 pm

Torvalds wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know how I can install Tomcat webserver on RHEL 4 with all
> dependencies?
>
> Are there any programs similar to YAST (in Suse) to aid with installations?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Torvolds,

up2date tomcat-server

Works if you have a rhn subscription.

Kind regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Torvalds

2006-05-08, 7:15 am

How much does a subscription typically cost?

I.e. Is it really worth home users running redhat ?

thanks

"Jan Gerrit Kootstra" <jan.gerrit@kootstra.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Torvalds wrote:
> Torvolds,
>
>
> up2date tomcat-server
>
> Works if you have a rhn subscription.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Matt Giwer

2006-05-08, 7:15 am

Torvalds wrote:
> How much does a subscription typically cost?

> I.e. Is it really worth home users running redhat ?

Those are different questions.

Why would a home user want to run tomcat? I have been a home user for years now
and never found a reason to pay for anything save an old Alsa build which only
worked for one odd ball motherboard.

Linux is mature. I define mature as at least three ways to do everything. Linux
has at least three ways to do anything.

So why not look for something else with tomcat functionality which will work on
your machine?

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Torvalds

2006-05-08, 7:15 am

"Matt Giwer" <jull43@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> Those are different questions.
>
> Why would a home user want to run tomcat? I have been a home user for
> years now and never found a reason to pay for anything save an old Alsa
> build which only worked for one odd ball motherboard.
>
> Linux is mature. I define mature as at least three ways to do everything.
> Linux has at least three ways to do anything.
>
> So why not look for something else with tomcat functionality which will
> work on your machine?
>
> --

It's because I'm wanting to test out some software called OpenNMS
(www.opennms.org)

This program requires that Tomcat 4 is installed.

It just seems odd that for other Distros, there are additional package
repositories so you can install apps for free whereas Redhat, AFAIK, will
only let you do this by paying a fee.

Lenard

2006-05-08, 1:16 pm

Torvalds wrote:

> It's because I'm wanting to test out some software called OpenNMS
> (www.opennms.org)
>
> This program requires that Tomcat 4 is installed.
>
> It just seems odd that for other Distros, there are additional package
> repositories so you can install apps for free whereas Redhat, AFAIK, will
> only let you do this by paying a fee.

So if you want to use the distro then pay the price, it is not that much
anyhow; http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/client/ others distros also have
pay for support services (this is how they pay the folks and help Linux to
improve).

Try using the freely downloadable CentOS-4.3; http://www.centos.org/

Then you can use yum and install tomcat; yum install tomcat-server
And the app you are wanting to test;
http://sourceforge.net/project/show...ckage_id=155188

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