Bingo. But please see below. Do you think I should follow ALU's advice here, that it should or does apply with youtube-dl? (Off the top of my head I imagine I'd have to edit the PATH variable, which is something I need to get a better grasp of.) Thanks, Tom On 6/12/19 9:18 PM, jason schaefer wrote:
On 6/12/19 7:58 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
YTDL has a fast development cycle, and I think it'll be a while before even Debian Testing (which is what came with my laptop modulo branding) gets to what is now the latest version, which by then will be 'outdated'. I get youtube-dl from backports. It has version 2019.01.17. This works perfectly for me all the time. Stretch/stable does not work at all. Its very old. For anyone unfamiliar, backports bridges the gap between stable and testing without apt-pinning or other time consuming solutions. https://backports.debian.org/
https://averagelinuxuser.com/how-not-to-break-your-debian-system/ "However, if you still need some program that is not available in Debian repositories, try NOT to install them system-wide. This is the first rule that will teach you how not to break Debian. Install executable programs locally You can make a folder /Programs/ in your home folder, and place all unofficial programs there. Many Linux programs come as executable files. So, copy program executables to the |~/Programs| folder.
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