[nmglug] Youtube dl on Debian 10 update/upgrade?

[Don Crowder]

Is there not a repository one could add to etc/apt/sources.list.d that
would keep it up to day once installed?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:15 PM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> a writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > OS specifics--Debian 10, firefos, cimmanon.
> >
> > Youtube -dl  needs upgrade/ update?
> >
> > Functionally illiterate linux user wishes youtube -dl update/update?
> advice.
>
> You didn't like my instructions last night at the meeting, but
> I'll give them again here anyway, with more details:
>
> YouTube frequently changes its pages, so youtube-dl has to be
> updated frequently to keep up. Since Debian stable doesn't update
> software often, you need to get youtube-dl from somewhere else.
>
> First, you'll probably want to
>     sudo apt uninstall youtube-dl
> to make sure the obsolete Debian version isn't getting in the way.
>
> The best place to get the latest youtube-dl is its project website:
> https://yt-dl.org/
>
> If you click on "Download instructions", you get taken to a page
> that suggests running the two commands:
>
> sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o
> /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
> sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
>
> If you run these two commands, now you'll have a copy of the latest
> youtube-do installed in /usr/local/bin, which is probably in your
> path already. But if not (if you type youtube-dl and get Command not
> found), you can run it by typing:
>
> /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsvoJ3vyBc
>
> (or whatever your desired youtube URL is).
>
> That should work. But if it breaks again, weeks or months from now,
> you can update it by typing those same sudo curl and sudo chmod
> commands again.
>
>         ...Akkana
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