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