http://stackoverflow.com – I have gone through SO for similar questions but none of them gave a correct working answer w.r.t my setup (the answers on the other questions were applicable for Windows machine, 64-bit). I have the following setup: $ $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 3.8.4-102.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:20:55 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ $ java -version java version "1.7.0_17" Java(TM) SE Run (HowTos)