Updating libswt-gtk in synaptic yields error and breaks eclipse

The following error is given when attempting to upgrade or repair libswt3.1-gtk
in Synaptic.

===error message============================================
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libswt3.1-gtk-java_3.1-10ubuntu1_all.deb: trying to
overwrite `/usr/share/java/swt-gtk-3.1.jar', which is also in package
libswt-gtk-3.1-java
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This gives the following error message when trying to launch eclipse.

===error message============================================
A suitible Java Virtual Machine for running the Eclipse platform could not be
located.
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This is a cross post of the following bug:
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17210