installed tomcat manually

[Derek Broughton]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> thufir:
> 
>> What's wrong with the ubuntu distribution of Tomcat, though?  It would
>> seem
>> to a novice such as myself to be a dead simple thing to automate.  On
>> the tomcat list it's a know problem, but the "why" is unknown.
> 
> Too many people came to the Tomcat users list with problems that
> magically went away when an upstream Tomcat package was used instead of
> the vendor-provided one.
> How good or bad in particular the Tomcat package from the Ubuntu
> repositories is, I can't say since I don't use it. But I don't see
> Tomcat 6 there and Tomcat 5.5 isn't on the current level - that contains
> important fixes IIRC - either. Don't know if those fixes are backported
> by Ubuntu's package maintainer, though.

Tomcat 5.5 works just fine in Ubuntu.
-- 
derek