So I realized the eclipse version in the repositories is pretty old and I'm trying to upgrade to the current version. Every tutorial I've read basically has you download the installer as a tar.gz extract and then run the installer or application. When I follow these steps I can't run the eclipse file. I have oracle JRE and JDK 8 installed so I'm not exactly sure what is going on here and why I can't run it.
Anyway any help is appreciated, and I've attached a screenshot to get more of an idea what it looks like: