Getting Eclipse to work in Linux

Getting Eclipse to start in Linux is a nighmare. You can't just double click on stuff like in Windows. Right now, the error I get when I try and start eclipse, I get the error:

JVM terminated. Exit code=13
/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_05/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.3.R33x_v20080118/eclipse_1023.so
-startup /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-exitdata aa8030
-vm /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_05/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar

I launched the thing using
/usr/local/eclipse/eclipse -vm /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_05/bin/

Lets see how it goes... I am not giving up yet.