It is in the documentation, when you use the package manager to install Tomcat you need to define in the default_master.properties file of the buildomatic the following : # Tomcat app server root dir # appServerDir = C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0 # appServerDir = /home/devuser/apache-tomcat-7.0.26 # if linux package managed tomcat instance, set two properties below CATALINA_HOME = /usr/share/tomcat6 CATALINA_BASE = /var/lib/tomcat6