Hi,
I am very new to Linux, and am currently running mint 17.1. I believe I installed java right, when I type java -version it displays
java version 1.7.0_79
OpenJDK Runtime Enviroment (IcedTea 2.5.5) (7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
OpenJDK 65-Bit Server VM (build 24.79.b02, mixed mode)
which, to my incredibly finite knowledge seems ok. However I am caught on step 6, as there is no Oracle Java 7 Runtime option. The closest option I could find was IcedTea Java Web Start, which does not work to run technic launcher, saying it could not parse the JNLP file. I have no idea what aspect I went wrong in, if you need more info to help diagnose the issue, just let me know.
Cheers