Installing Tomcat 7 using apt-get fails [closed]

I get the following error when installing Tomcat7:

Setting up tomcat7 (7.0.26-1ubuntu1.1) ...  
chmod: cannot access `/etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml': No such file or directory  
dpkg: error processing tomcat7 (--configure):  
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1  
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already  

 >Errors were encountered while processing:  
 tomcat7  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And I get this error when I try to apt-get remove Tomcat7:

Removing tomcat7 ...  
 * tomcat7 is not installed  
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat7, action "stop" failed.

How do I fix this to install Tomcat 7 correctly?

Solution 1:

I had the exact the same problem.

I had to run this command (see below) to see what all tomcat related libraries are there and remove ALL the tomcat related libraries:

To see what all tomcat related libraries are there:

dpkg -l | grep -i tomcat

To remove a tomcat library:

dpkg -P <library-name>

Then, I reinstalled tomcat7 using the command:

sudo apt-get install tomcat7

[ During installation, it spit out messages saying it is going to install some of the other libraries related to tomcat7 - I chose - yes ].

It installed tomcat7 and started it.

Then, I stopped and restarted tomcat7 using these commands:

/etc/init.d/tomcat7 stop
/etc/init.d/tomcat7 start

Solution 2:

I had error stated that tomcat7 is aready newer version. Steps :

1. Uninstall tomcat7 using command sudo apt-get autoremove tomcat7.
2. This uninstalls tomcat7 completely.
3. Now install it using sudo apt-get install tomcat7.

It worked well with me, give it a try.