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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

There's seem to be something wrong with youtube-dl's Buster version cause it kept giving me this error

youtube says: video not available

and tried to update but got this

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian. Please update youtube-dl using apt(8). See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

but apt kept telling me that the latest youtube-dl version was installed, so I downloaded the .deb for testing a.k.a Bullseye, installed it, fortunately it gave me no errors nor was any package replaced/updated and it didn't made any changes in sources.list file and now youtube-dl works as expected. Can you add/include youtube-dl Bullseye's version so Buster's get updated from that one?

robbertflord134

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Registered: 2020-07-13

Posts: 2

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

I downloaded the .deb for testing a.k.a Bullseye, installed it my self, fortunately it gave me no errors, no bugs nor was any package replaced/updated and it didn't made any changes in sources.list file and now youtube-dl works as expected

PetarSerbia

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Registered: 2018-11-22

Posts: 28

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

Hello. I installed youtube-dl snap package and it work OK. Only one snap install and that is youtube-dl.

Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

I downloaded the .deb for testing a.k.a Bullseye, installed it my self, fortunately it gave me no errors, no bugs nor was any package replaced/updated and it didn't made any changes in sources.list file and now youtube-dl works as expected

Ehh ... Why?? LOL

Hello. I installed youtube-dl snap package and it work OK. Only one snap install and that is youtube-dl.

Yes, I'm aware there's a snap package available and that's reported to work but if possible I'll try to avoid snap and flatpack as well for as long as I can.
Using the one from testing/bullseye works.

Midas

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Registered: 2017-12-15

Posts: 167

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

YouTube changes break downloaders quite often -- e.g., recently in Windows and on a particular network that I use, even the latest version of youtube-dl is failing with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[videoID] type URLs  and only https://youtu.be/[videoID] type ones work...

Last edited by Midas (2020-08-08 15:32)

4gAV2

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Registered: 2021-03-28

Posts: 9

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

you can get it from their github and auto update every week with -U

put it in your local bin

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,295

Re: Update youtube-dl to Bullseye; Buster's doesn't work.

Add http://www.deb-multimedia.org to your repos.