<div dir="ltr">Is there not a repository one could add to etc/apt/sources.list.d that would keep it up to day once installed?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:15 PM Akkana Peck <<a href="mailto:akkana@shallowsky.com">akkana@shallowsky.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">a writes:<br>
> Hi<br>
> <br>
> OS specifics--Debian 10, firefos, cimmanon.<br>
> <br>
> Youtube -dl needs upgrade/ update?<br>
> <br>
> Functionally illiterate linux user wishes youtube -dl update/update? advice.<br>
<br>
You didn't like my instructions last night at the meeting, but<br>
I'll give them again here anyway, with more details:<br>
<br>
YouTube frequently changes its pages, so youtube-dl has to be<br>
updated frequently to keep up. Since Debian stable doesn't update<br>
software often, you need to get youtube-dl from somewhere else.<br>
<br>
First, you'll probably want to<br>
sudo apt uninstall youtube-dl<br>
to make sure the obsolete Debian version isn't getting in the way.<br>
<br>
The best place to get the latest youtube-dl is its project website:<br>
<a href="https://yt-dl.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://yt-dl.org/</a><br>
<br>
If you click on "Download instructions", you get taken to a page<br>
that suggests running the two commands:<br>
<br>
sudo curl -L <a href="https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl</a> -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl<br>
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl<br>
<br>
If you run these two commands, now you'll have a copy of the latest<br>
youtube-do installed in /usr/local/bin, which is probably in your<br>
path already. But if not (if you type youtube-dl and get Command not<br>
found), you can run it by typing:<br>
<br>
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsvoJ3vyBc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsvoJ3vyBc</a><br>
<br>
(or whatever your desired youtube URL is).<br>
<br>
That should work. But if it breaks again, weeks or months from now,<br>
you can update it by typing those same sudo curl and sudo chmod<br>
commands again.<br>
<br>
...Akkana<br>
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