Installation of Apache Tomcat Native on Linux Ubuntu 12.04


Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Tomcat: 7.0.39
Tomcat Native: 1.1.27


I tried to install tomcat's native library in a standard way using apt-get


But, I got error message on the startup of tomcat saying that:

Installed version 1.1.22 is not suitable and at least version 1.1.24 is needed.

The only way I found to solve this error was to compile sources of Tomcat Native into fresh Ubuntu.

Steps used:


1. Install compiler


2. Install openssl and development libraries


3. Install APR package

APR package can be downloaded from http://apr.apache.org/


You should see the compiled file in


4. Download, compile and install Tomcat Native source package tomcat-native-1.1.27-src.tar.gz

Download archive into /tmp folder, then:

Now, compiled Tomcat Native library should be in /usr/local/apr/libtcnative-1.so.0.1.27 with a symbolic link file /usr/local/apr/@libtcnative-1.so


5. Create or edit the $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh file with line:


6. Restart tomcat and enjoy the desired result:














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