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Release Found: Red Hat Application Server, Tomcat 5 package

Symptom:
When installing the package tomcat5 or when starting the tomcat5 service, you see one or both of the following error messages on the screen or in the log file /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out:

/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java does not exist or is not a directory /usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 272: /usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java: No such file or directory

Solution:
This is because the Tomcat from the tomcat5 package can not find a compatible version of a Java SDK installed on the system. Several Java SDKs that are compatible with the tomcat5 package are provided in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras channel.

Before installing one of these Java SDK packages from the Extras channel, you will need to uninstall the tomcat5 package. Use rpm -e tomcat5 to uninstall this package.

Once you have uninstalled the tomcat5 package, you can install one of the Java SDK packages provided in the Extras channel and then reinstall the tomcat5 package.