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Re: [HowTo] Install latest youtube-dl on DEVUAN 4

dummy@example.com (alexkemp) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:22:58 +0000

Tritonio wrote:

Did you get your version from elsewhere?

No. The standard youtube-dl is also installed in the standard location. However, I first got it in the days of Debian & updates were few & far in between (today updates are never). So, I installed a second copy in /usr/local/bin and, if you look at the code in my post, that is where the update command is made. I still have youtube-dl installed, but it never updates now:

$ /usr/bin/youtube-dl --version
2021.06.06
$ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --version
2021.12.17
$ /usr/bin/yt-dlp --version
2022.08.19

If you only ever want to download old YT videos then you do not need yt-dlp. However, if a recent video then you do, since G changes the algorithm every month or two. Hence the need to make use of backports.

Re: [HowTo] Install latest youtube-dl on DEVUAN 4

dummy@example.com (Tritonio) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:25:58 +0000

I used youtube-dl just fine yesterday. In general it needs me to keep a tab open with the video otherwise google eventually figures out I'm downloading it and cuts me off. Although this only affects downloading playlists, if it's a single video it never cuts in the middle.

alexkemp when I try the command you run to update youtube-dl I get:

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.

Did you get your version from elsewhere?

Re: [HowTo] Install latest youtube-dl on DEVUAN 4

dummy@example.com (alexkemp) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:01:28 +0000

I advise you most strongly not to bother.

This is the result of a youtube-dl (local) upgrade attempt just now:

sudo /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2021.12.17)

It has been abandoned & no longer will download most YT videos. Use yt-dlp instead (available via backports):

man yt-dlp
NAME
       yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches
# …
$ yt-dlp --version
2022.08.19

[HowTo] Install latest youtube-dl on DEVUAN 4

dummy@example.com (wingcommander1999) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 05:54:37 +0000

youtube-dl are a program in command line to download video from youtube and many other sites.

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youtube-dl needs the python3-pip package for upgrading it, but since January 1st 2020 Python 2.7 reaches end of life after 20 years of development.
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This is the error message after classic installation, if no python 2.7 are availlable in the sources:

" /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory"

To solve this issue we need two things, python3-pip package and change the path to work fine.

At first download the python3-pip package like:

sudo apt install python3-pip -y

We can install latest youtube-dl or take it in the Mint sources with Synaptic.

To upgrade it:

sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl

Now we change the path doing a symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python

Yet we can download vids, just open an terminal and paste:

youtube-dl my_video_link

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