Tomcat requires JRE.

<pre lang="bash">
wget jre-8uversion-linux-x64.tar.gz
# or
apt-get install default-jdk

Install Tomcat 8 on Linux.

<pre lang="bash">
wget https://mirrors.gigenet.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.66/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.66.tar.gz
tar zxpvf apache-tomcat-8.5.66.tar.gz
cd /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.66/bin/
./startup.sh
Status Start Stop Restart Tomcat. 
<pre lang="bash">
systemctl status tomcat8
systemctl start tomcat8
systemctl stop tomcat8
systemctl restart tomcat8