I'm having this error on Linux Mint KDE 17.3 (Codename "Rosa"). I completely annihilated Java (When I install the OS this convenient "Icedtea" plugin that breaks everything is installed. It runs pretty deep into the system from what I can tell.) and installed JRE 6. This failed, so I repeated and installed JRE 7. This also didn't work. Since the normal installer doesn't load for me (No Java process was started, going to try again after posting), I am using the Windows installer with a Wine 1.6 package. So far I'm out of options. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: Same issue. The task manager on my "taskbar" states a program called "java" is loading. This goes on until the program load times out. In the System Activity (Windows Task Manager), nothing containing "java" is loading. At all.
Oh, and the reason I put some stuff in that is kinda obvious to me is to save time for anybody helping me who doesn't know what these are.