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mr93
mr93

Reputation: 133

issue in extracting apache-tomcat-8.5.5.tar.gz file when installing tomcat8 in ubuntu 16.04 server

I have tried to install tomcat8 on ubuntu(16.04) virtual server by entering following command ( as in this).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
cd /tmp
curl -O http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.5/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.5.tar.gz

The last command gives error as below.

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar:Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I have also tried to rename the tar.gz file to .tar file and extract it.but it did not work. how can i overcome this error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4411

Answers (3)

Lanil Marasinghe
Lanil Marasinghe

Reputation: 2915

Go to Apache Tomcat® Downloads page and download the latest core binary distribution file (ex: apache-tomcat-9.0.13.zip).

Copy the extracted content of the ZIP file to /opt/tomcat and follow the installation steps.

Upvotes: 0

askir
askir

Reputation: 21

This problem occurs because there are no files on the server apache.mirrors.ionfish.org. Type in a browser the address http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.5/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.5.tar.gz and you will see information about the error:

The requested URL /tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.5/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.5.tar.gz was not found on this server.

You must open the address http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/ and check the existing versions. I see the following information:

[DIR] v8.0.50/ 13-Feb-2018 06:24 -
[DIR] v8.5.28/ 11-Feb-2018 20:12 -

Another way is to check the format file with the command:

file apache-tomcat-8.5.5.tar.gz

It should show information about the type of file. For a valid file it shows "gzip compressed data". In our case it shows "HTML document, ASCII text".

Upvotes: 2

Augustus
Augustus

Reputation: 634

Try this :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
sudo apt-get install unzip
cd /opt
curl -O http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.15/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.15.zip
sudo unzip apache-tomcat-8.5.15.zip
sudo mv apache-tomcat-8.5.15 tomcat

Upvotes: 0

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