Dought regarding tomcat bin directory & configuring eclispse for tomcat

Question

I had installed tomcat7 in Ubuntu 12.10 by sudo apt-get install tomcat7
I have two problems..

First one is, When go to the tomcat installation directory i.e /etc/tomcat directory, i didn't find bin directory. Where it is?

Second one is, While configuring Eclipse IDE for Tomcat7 i followed these steps
1) gone to the Preferences
2) On servers tab i choose Runtime Environment
3) Clicked on add button, i had chosen apache and then chosen Apache Tomcatv7.0 then i have Clicked next.
4) There i have given Tomcat installation directory as /etc/tomcat7 then i got error like following:
Unknown version of Tomcat was specified.

So, please help me to fix these problems......

Answer 1

I guess English is not your first language, its doubt and not dought :-)

In Ubuntu you have to provide the location /usr/share/tomcat7 in Eclipse for it to work. Other way to find which directory is to run the following code

locate bin | grep tomcat7

and find where tomcat7 installation directory is.

Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

Can you do a "which tomcat" and make sure you're looking for the bin directory in the proper location. If you didn't get a bin directory then you either aren't looking in the right place or your installation process had some serious problems. Try looking too at your environment variables (CATALINA_HOME).

In Eclipse, I believe you are failing because it isn't getting the bin directory. Once you get past your first question, it should certainly help you to answer the second.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

I was facing the same problem and the only mistake was to select /usr/share/tomcat7 folder instead of /etc/tomcat7 folder because bin exists in /usr/share/tomcat7 folder.

Hope it helps others.