Netbeans crashes while initializing and so does Eclipse

Question

Currently running Lubuntu 18.04

Okay so I installed NetBeans and it crashed on startup. Purged Netbeans and reinstalled it fresh. It crashed again. After that I installed eclipse and when I tried to start it I was presented with a directory for an error log:

!SESSION Fri Oct 19 15:20:48 PDT 2018 !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2018-10-19 15:20:48.770 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:466) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:566) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:626) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1414)

So I'm at a loss I'm pretty sure it has to do with the JRE/JDK versions but I don't even know which version should work with eclipse or netbeans. I really just need an easy way to compile java I'm trying to get this set up for a class I'm taking.

Answer 1

Mick Mnemonic gave me this link to a decent tutorial on using oracle and netbeans self installer instead of trying to install directly through synaptic package manager or apt-get.