Once I finished downloading my ide, it was just a matter of entering the following commands on the Terminal application:

> sudo tar -zxvf Desktop/easyeclipse-lamp-1.2.2.2.tar.gz
> sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/eclipse
> sudo mv -rv easyeclipse-lamp-1.2.2.2/* /usr/local/lib/eclipse
> sudo rm -rv easyeclipse-lamp-1.2.2.2/

Of course the first and third commands took more time than a blink of an eye to finish. Then all I had to do is create a launcher for Eclipse by right clicking on the Desktop > Create a Launcher… then browsing for the file /usr/local/lib/eclipse/eclipse

I launched the application and thank goodness it started without errors.

Next up, download and installation of Android SDK.