André Warnier wrote: > parin123 wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am trying to install Tomcat on Ubuntu Linux and here is the problem.... > ... > Hi. > > I am taking advantage of the fact that Chuck is on holiday, and maybe > not watching this forum with his accustomed eagle eye. > > Considering that this is Ubuntu, and considering that as I believe > Ubuntu is relatively close to Debian, I would recommend that you just > use the Tomcat package available through "apt-get install tomcatx.x.", > and save yourself a lot of aggravation. > > Explanation and caveats : > > There are two schools of thought : > > One school recommends that you always install Tomcat from the official > Tomcat site. That has the following advantages : > - you will get the latest version > - all the Tomcat files get installed under one single directory > - you will be able to get better support on this forum > But it has the disadvantage that you will in the future not be able to > use the Ubuntu-specific facilities to de-install/upgrade your Tomcat > easily. > > The other school recommends (for some platforms) to install packages > using the platform-specific utilities (like apt) to install and manage > all packages, including Tomcat. That has the opposite > avantages/inconvenients to the above. > > The problem for later support of that solution on this forum, is not > that people here are unwilling to help, but that it is more difficult > for them to help, because they cannot know, for all the different > platforms, where these platform-specific packages install the Tomcat > files, or what they put exactly in them. > It can also be the case that some of these pre-packaged versions are > "broken". My personal experience so far with Debian has been quite > good, and I never had problems installing and running Tomcat from these > packages. > > Anyone's mileage may vary. > > If you would like guidance, I can provide some, based on Debian.
Also, did you set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to /usr/bin, or did the system come like that? p > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
