Silly me! There is a simple work around:
​apt-get purge eclipse ; ​apt autoremove
Download Eclipse Installer on https://eclipse.org/downloads and install it as 
non root.
My apologizes.

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  Eclipse fails to start on fresh 18.04 installation

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