On the tomcat mailing list there's a thread questioning why tomcat fails to install correctly: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user/171947 Just thought I'd ask here, as that seems to be the upshot. I followed: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/ which seems to have worked fine. -Thufir