Unable to install or upgrade or reinstall omxplayer

[AnilGupte]

When I try to update omxplayer using this package as follows:
sudo dpkg -i omxplayer_0.3.7~git20170130~62fb580_armhf.deb

I get the following:

dpkg: warning: downgrading omxplayer from 20170330~134343-2 to 0.3.7~git20170130~62fb580
(Reading database ... 124732 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack omxplayer_0.3.7~git20170130~62fb580_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking omxplayer (0.3.7~git20170130~62fb580) over (20170330~134343-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of omxplayer:
 omxplayer depends on libssl1.0.0; however:
  Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed.
 omxplayer depends on libssh-4; however:
  Package libssh-4 is not installed.

And I am unable to install the libssl* and libssh* packages.
Current omxplayer installation is:

omxplayer - Commandline multimedia player for the Raspberry Pi
        Build date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:40:39 +0100
        Version   : 5a25a57 [debian]
        Repository: [email protected]:XECDesign/omxplayer.git

But this was before I tried to update. I can no longer even execute omxplayer! I get
/usr/bin/omxplayer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libWFC.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[syadnom]

Did you ever solve this? I'm at the same error

[popcornmix]

how are you installing? What distribution and version of OS are you using.
omxplayer is in the raspberry pi repo if you are using raspbian stretch.

sudo apt install omxplayer

should be enough.

[spike80]

Hi,

I have the similar problem on my Pi Zero, Pi 3B and Pi 3B+. I had installed the latest raspbian image (one downloaded from raspberrypi.com the other SD card has been created with the "imager tool".

When I start omxplayer (with or without parameters) I get the error message

pi@zeropi:~ $ omxplayer
/usr/bin/omxplayer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libbrcmEGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I uninstall the preinstalled package with
sudo apt-get autoremove omxplayer
it will be removed successfully.

When I try to install it again with
sudo apt-get install omxplayer

It cannot be installed. I get the error (sorry my dialog language is German)
E: Für Paket »omxplayer« existiert kein Installationskandidat.

Which means something like "There is no installation candidate for the package »omxplayer«".

[spike80]

Dear all,

Just to update my comment. My problem seems to be related to Debian 11 Bullseye which is commented in another thread. After creating a fresh SD card with Debian 10 Buster everything works as expected. Maybe this helps somebody else...