RealPlayer conflicts HelixPlayer?

wtf?

macewan@cornbread:~$ wget http://195.153.177.76/uploads/ben/linux/ubuntu/realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb
–20:00:42–  http://195.153.177.76/uploads/ben/linux/ubuntu/realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb
           => `realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb’
Connecting to 195.153.177.76:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 6,125,430 (5.8M) [application/x-debian-package]

100%[=============================================>] 6,125,430     29.57K/s    ETA 00:00

20:03:54 (31.27 KB/s) – `realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb’ saved [6125430/6125430]

macewan@cornbread:~$ sudo dpkg -i real*.deb
Password:
Selecting previously deselected package realplayer.
dpkg: regarding realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb containing realplayer:
 realplayer conflicts with helix-player
  helix-player (version 1.0.6-1ubuntu1) is installed.
dpkg: error processing realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb (–install):
 conflicting packages – not installing realplayer
Errors were encountered while processing:
 realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb
macewan@cornbread:~$ sudo apt-get remove helix-player
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  helix-player
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 10.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 214430 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing helix-player …
macewan@cornbread:~$ sudo dpkg -i real*.deb
(Reading database … 214279 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking realplayer (from realplayer_10.0.6-0.0_i386.deb) …
Setting up realplayer (10.0.6-0.0) …

macewan@cornbread:~$

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