tomcat 5.5

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 14:56 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote
> :
> > Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> > 
> >> William, try this web site.
> >>
> >> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi
> > 
> > Why? "sudo aptitude install tomcat5.5" would be easier...
> 
> For example, because the probably first thing you'll be told if you're
> seeking help on the Tomcat users list is to throw away the
> distribution-provided Tomcat and to get a real one from
> tomcat.apache.org instead.

I would agree with the aptitude approach.  I have done that with Tomcat
and it seems to work fine. However, as the poster points out there are
reasons to go to the original source of the software.  If you do that, I
would strongly recommend installing it under /usr/local, so it does not
conflict with any installed packages.  It also makes OS upgrades much
simpler.
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