I found a better fix - hyperion is moving to QT5 and at the moment drops a lot of conflicting libraries.
edit /usr/bin/mediacenter
add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to line 88:
sudo -u osmc LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib/ $KODI --standalone -fs --lircdev /var/run/lirc/lircd; CODE="$?"