Install Tomcat 8.5 through apt (apt-get)

Question

Does anybody know if and when this will be available for Ubuntu Server 16.04? As of now, installing Tomcat through apt you get version 8.0.45.

Answer 1

The short answer to "if and when Tomcat 8.5 will be available for Ubuntu Server 16.04?" is if - NO and when - in Ubuntu 17.10 and later. You have already written in a comment that you do not want to download Tomcat 8.5 and install it manually in Ubuntu 16.04.

Apache Tomcat 8 version 8.5 (tomcat8) will not be available in the Ubuntu 16.04 default repositories, but it it will be available in the official Ubuntu repositories starting in Ubuntu 17.10 which will be released in October, 2017. In Ubuntu 17.10 and later open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install tomcat8  

Apache Tomcat 9 (tomcat9) will be available in the official Ubuntu repositories starting in Ubuntu 19.04. To install it open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install tomcat9