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Step 1: Remove pre-installed version of Apache Tomcat 5.5.x

If your installation of RHEL 5 has Apache Tomcat 5.5.x installed by default, then it must be removed.  This can be done easily through yum as RHEL 5 saw Redhat replacing up2date with yum as the preferred package management tool.

Code Block

[root@localhost ~]# yum list installed | grep tomcat
tomcat5.i386                             5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
tomcat5-common-lib.i386                  5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
tomcat5-jasper.i386                      5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api.i386                 5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
tomcat5-server-lib.i386                  5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api.i386             5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server
[root@localhost ~]# yum remove tomcat5.i386
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
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--> Running transaction check
Setting up repositories
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files

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Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
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Removing:
 tomcat5                 i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5  335 k
Removing for dependencies:
 geronimo-specs          i386       1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12  rhel-i386-server-5  230 k
 geronimo-specs-compat   i386       1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12  rhel-i386-server-5  5.5 k
 jakarta-commons-fileupload  i386       1:1.0-6jpp.1     rhel-i386-server-5   48 k
 tomcat5-common-lib      i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5  196 k
 tomcat5-jasper          i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5  981 k
 tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api     i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5   93 k
 tomcat5-server-lib      i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5  3.6 M
 tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api  i386       5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5  150 k

Transaction Summary
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Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       9 Package(s)
 
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Once Tomcat is removed, then we can move onto setting up our Sun Java environment!

Step 2: Download and install Sun JRE / JDK

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