tomcat 5.5

[Markus Schönhaber]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 14:56 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote

>>> 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.

Maybe I should have been more clear: experience shows that many of the
distribution-provided Tomcat packages are patched beyond recognition and
will cause problems eventually. That's why people on the Tomcat users
list are reluctant to provide help in those cases, since they don't know
whether they waste their time on a problem the poster wouldn't have if
he'd use an upstream version of Tomcat.

OTOH, I neither know nor care if the Tomcat package from the Ubuntu
repositories is among those practically unusable packages, since I have
never installed this one but am rather using a self-built version from
the tc6.0.x/trunk svn branch.

> 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.

Good point!
Personally, I prefer splitting things up between /opt and /srv, though.

Regards
  mks