Hi Bernd, I think, that the best solution is to 'install' Tomcat manually from binaries available on Tomcat project. I do not use repositories on my CentOS/Debian machines, because Tomcat versions available there are a bit outdated (I need 7.X while in official repos you will not find such). In addition, read this before upgrade: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html .
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