It was my impression that the Tomcat available from JPackage was built with
JDK 1.3. If it was built with 1.4, it wouldn't need all those
dependencies. I avoid it for that reason. Once up on a time, rpms were
available from the jakarta site. I used them with at most one or two other
To be able to install tomcat rpm package, you must install a lot of
other packages that tomcat depends on, first.
I already did this once, and for me it was very time consuming and it
wasn't easy at all. This is because JPackager can't provide some
packages as binary packages, because of
aren't that important for me to
mess around installing whatever else is required by the package definition..
Yiannis
-Original Message-
From: Vitor Buitoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 February 2004 11:19
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage
To be able
: Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage
To be able to install tomcat rpm package, you must install a lot of
other packages that tomcat depends on, first.
I already did this once, and for me it was very time consuming and it
wasn't easy at all. This is because JPackager can't provide some
packages
What I don't understand though is why doesn't someone just use the
compiled binary from jakarta.apache.org and make an RPM out of that; that
way there would be no preexisting dependencies (unless I'm totally naive
on that point). In any case I did get help about this topic and I came
away with
Vitor Buitoni wrote:
To be able to install tomcat rpm package, you must install a lot of
other packages that tomcat depends on, first.
I already did this once, and for me it was very time consuming and it
wasn't easy at all. This is because JPackager can't provide some
packages as binary
