Problem scenario(s)
One of the following problems apply.
1. You are trying to start Tomcat on Linux (e.g., with bash catalina.sh start) and you get this error:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:262)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:444)
* OR *
2. You have nothing installed on Linux yet. You want to install Apache Tomcat from the source (not binary) installation media here.
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