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How to install tomcat6 on Ubuntu 15.10?

Posted on January 4, 2016

I’ve just done a release upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10, and tomcat6 was removed.

If I try to install it again, I get an error:

E: Package ‘tomcat6’ has no installation candidate

How can I install it again?



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In Ubuntu 15.10 Tomcat6 is in the Universe repository which may not be enabled by default. You can enable it with:

sudo add-apt-repository universe

and then try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomcat6

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