OS13.2 + apache solr 5.2.1

Has anyone had any success in getting solr running on opensuse 13.2?

Specs:
OpenSuSE 13.2
solr 5.2.1
Java:
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode)

env|grep -i java:
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java/jre
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib64/jvm/java
JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib64/jvm/java/bin
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java
SDK_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java
JDK_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java
JAVA_ROOT=/usr/lib64/jvm/java

Note that I added java to PATH but it didn’t help.

I’ve already done an internet search and tried various things I came across but those articles I suspect a pretty old and don’t apply.

Behavior:
apps@quark:~/apps/solr-5.2.1/solr> ./bin/solr start
Waiting to see Solr listening on port 8983 /]
Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=21252). Happy searching!

apps@quark:~/apps/solr-5.2.1/solr> ./bin/solr status

Found 1 Solr nodes:

Solr process 21252 running on port 8983
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI
and when you go to: http://localhost:8983/solr/ you get:
HTTP ERROR: 503 Problem accessing /solr/. Reason:
Service Unavailable [HR][/HR]Powered by Jetty://

FYI: Being a non-java developer it was not obvious to me that Tomcat needed to be installed and running and it’s not by default. Once I did that it was fine.