can't install omxplayer on Raspbian Stretch Lite due to unmet dependencies

[caseyanderson]

When I try to install omxplayer player from aptitude (under Raspbian Stretch Lite) the installation fails due to unmet dependencies (see below for list). Any suggestions for how to fix this? Alternately I could roll back to a previous Raspbian but would prefer to avoid doing that as I just spent all this time setting this new image up.

Release info

Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch)
Release: 9.1
Codename: stretch

Message from Aptitude following install failure

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 omxplayer : Depends: libavcodec57 (>= 7:3.2.5) but it is not installable or
                      libavcodec-extra57 (>= 7:3.2.5) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavformat57 (>= 7:3.2.5) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavutil55 (>= 7:3.2.5) but it is not installable
             Depends: libswresample2 (>= 7:3.2.5) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[caseyanderson]

tried building from source (as described in the README here) and make failed part of the way through building ffmpeg due to some sort of conflict. gonna roll back to jessie because i am on a deadline, know that jessie doesn't have this problem, etc., but just wanted to give a bit of an update about my unsuccessful attempts to install omxplayer on most recent stretch.

[abiliomp]

Hi! I had the same problem and solved just by running

apt-get update

then...

apt-get upgrade

and again...

apt-get update

and finally...

sudo apt-get install omxplayer

I hope you find this useful.

[E3V3A]

I think you can close this, because even that stretch version is already very outdated.