diff --git a/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl b/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl
index 2c6097d..e5ffe87 100755
--- a/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl
+++ b/tools/package/bin/onos-ctl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 # Starts ONOS Apache Karaf container
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/
+
 cd $(dirname $0)/../apache-karaf-*/bin
 ./karaf "$@"