Tomcat Installation on Linux

You can download the tar file and extract it to use the sh files directly.

Reference : how-to-install-apache-tomcat-8-on-ubuntu-14-04

Then, you need to set the environment variables also.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat




$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh