java not a dynamic executable
situation where your JAVA_HOME is set and java is in patch but still you were not able to use java cmd.. $ ldd /patch/to/java not a dynamic executable .. ( this output means its missing some library ) sudo apt-get install ia32-libs this would install the required library. after instaling ia32-libs you can do an ldd now it should show a different output. $ ldd /patch/to/java linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7f65000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f3d000) libjli.so =/homes/ /java/jdk1.6.0_11-32/bin/../jre/lib/i386/jli/libjli.so (0xf7f33000) libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f2f000) libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7dcc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f66000) THIS SHOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM !!! -G