Monthly Archives: July 2010

Installing Apache Tomcat 6 on CentOS

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CentOS is great substitute for Red Hat Enterprise Linux but is missing some useful packages like Apache Tomcat 6. Installing Apache Tomcat 6 on CentOS 5 from gzip-package is fairly easy. The following guide is at least for CentOS 5.4.

Pre-Requirements
First you need to install Sun JDK and you can follow the instructions given in Installing Sun JDK 1.6 on CentOS

After Java is on place it’s time to get ready for Tomcat.… Continue reading →

Installing Sun JDK 1.6 on CentOS

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CentOS doesn’t have a package for Sun JDK so it has to installed manually. It’s fairly easy but there are some steps to do that. This guide has been tested on CentOS 5.4 x64_86.

Step 1. Initial setup for building RPM
-!- Do this with a non-root user

  1. Create ~/.rpmmacros 
    • $ vim ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home//rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
  2. Create needed folders: 
    • $ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,RPMS,tmp,BUILD}
  3. Build environment needs to be complete.

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