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  • Need new install of youtube-dlp

    From Bill Ubuntu@[email protected] to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed Apr 22 12:32:22 2026
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    my ubuntu is Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.
    Not long ago I successfully used utility youtube-dlp.
    Now not working.
    Ubuntu does not recognize the command.
    Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?
    Can anyone tell me where to get better youtube-dlp
    Thanks.
    Bill S.

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  • From Axel@[email protected] to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Thu Apr 23 08:09:11 2026
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    Bill Ubuntu wrote:
    my ubuntu is Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.
    Not long ago I successfully used utility youtube-dlp.
    Now not working.
    Ubuntu does not recognize the command.
    Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?
    Can anyone tell me where to get better youtube-dlp
    Thanks.
    Bill S.


    you can just use a browser. eg. https://app.ytdown.to/en25/
    --
    Linux Mint 22.3

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed Apr 22 23:16:27 2026
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    On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:32:22 -0700, Bill Ubuntu wrote:

    Can anyone tell me where to get better youtube-dlp

    Use the Source, Luke! <https://github.com/yt-dlp/>
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  • From Paul@[email protected] to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Thu Apr 23 05:30:54 2026
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    On Wed, 4/22/2026 3:32 PM, Bill Ubuntu wrote:
    my ubuntu is Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.
    Not long ago I successfully used utility youtube-dlp.
    Now not working.
    Ubuntu does not recognize the command.
    Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?
    Can anyone tell me where to get better youtube-dlp
    Thanks.
    Bill S.


    There is a summary here. But we'll look around first.
    Maybe we can get it by banging on the pipes with our spanner.

    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ yt-dlp -U
    Current version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
    Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
    ERROR: As yt-dlp has been installed via apt, you should use that to update. If you're on a stable release, also check backports.
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $

    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ snap search yt-dlp
    Name Version Publisher Notes Summary
    yt-dlp 2026.03.17-1-gf01e1a1ce degville A fork of youtube-dl with additional features and patches

    OK, so what I'm going to do, is go into Synaptic and uninstall 2024.04.09 first.

    Then, in terminal, I'll use SNAP for it.

    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ sudo synaptic <=== removed yt-dlp in here [sudo] password for bullwinkle:
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ snap install yt-dlp
    yt-dlp 2026.03.17-1-gf01e1a1ce from Graham Morrison (degville) installed WARNING: There is 1 new warning. See 'snap warnings'.
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ yt-dlp --version
    bash: /usr/bin/yt-dlp: No such file or directory
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ which yt-dlp
    /snap/bin/yt-dlp
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $ /snap/bin/yt-dlp --version
    2026.03.17
    bullwinkle@SUPERFLY :~ $

    That should be sufficient, plus or minus the path issue.

    Paul
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Thu Apr 23 21:54:31 2026
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    On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:30:54 -0400, Paul wrote:

    There is a summary here. But we'll look around first.
    Maybe we can get it by banging on the pipes with our spanner.

    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

    What I do is git-clone the whole repo and just run the yt-dlp.sh
    script that it includes. Nice and simple.
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