installing eclipse IDE

[pwnage101]

i'm having problems installing eclipse.

first i downloaded the file
eclipse-java-europa-winter-linux-gtk.tar.gz
from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

unpacked it, went into the file and found an executable file named "eclipse". when i run it, it gives me this:


JVM terminated. Exit code=13
/usr/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118. jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-showsplash
-launcher /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.3.R 33x_v20080118/eclipse_1023.so
-startup /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118. jar
-exitdata ef804d
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118. jar
in a popup window.

what exactly does this mean? do i need to update java?


my javac and java commands work fine. i've been working away at test java files for the past couple days and they've been compiling and executing smoothly.