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how to update software not in repo - timbuck2 - 05-22-2021

So youtube changed their api or something and the youtube-dl version in LL 5.4 (2020.03.24-1) doesn't work anymore. This version is over a year old and out of date. There is a new 2021.05.16 which is the current version.

How would I install this new version on my system when it is not in the repo provided by LL? Do I have to uninstall the repo version and build the current version manually? Any help would be appreciated.

Re: how to update software not in repo - trinidad - 05-22-2021

Be advised You-Tube is in a state of flux these days over changes in EU copyright law, and I expect it to continue to be annoying to the free software community. You can use snapd to install the latest version for Ubuntu 20.x. See the link.
https://snapcraft.io/install/youtube-dl/ubuntu
TC

Re: how to update software not in repo - robert2019 - 05-22-2021

HI timbuck2,
You might also try

sudo youtube-dl -U
enter your password

To verify it got updated code now:
youtube-dl --version

Hope it helps.

Re: how to update software not in repo - timbuck2 - 05-22-2021

(05-22-2021, 01:59 PM)trinidad link Wrote: Be advised You-Tube is in a state of flux these days over changes in EU copyright law, and I expect it to continue to be annoying to the free software community. You can use snapd to install the latest version for Ubuntu 20.x. See the link.
https://snapcraft.io/install/youtube-dl/ubuntu
TC

Ok, I will check the link and read about it. Thanks for the tip.

(05-22-2021, 02:07 PM)robert2019 link Wrote: HI timbuck2,
You might also try

sudo youtube-dl -U
enter your password

To verify it got updated code now:
youtube-dl --version

Hope it helps.

Yes, I had tried that first before I posted here. I got the following message when I tried:

Code:
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.

Re: how to update software not in repo - timbuck2 - 05-22-2021

Ok, I installed snapd (it is not installed by default on LL 5.4) and ran the command to install youtube-dl with it (after completely removing the older one in synaptics I had installed previously).

Code:
sudo snap install youtube-dl

This resulted in version 2021.01.16 being installed which is newer than the one in synaptics, but not the newest 2021.05.16.

"youtube-dl -U" still won't update it and replies:

Code:
It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.

Do I need to download and compile the newest version manually?

Re: how to update software not in repo - Valtam - 05-23-2021

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Re: how to update software not in repo - timbuck2 - 05-23-2021

Ok, I give up Jerry, how did you do that? Confused

hrug

When I run the same command I get:

Code:
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.

Re: how to update software not in repo - Valtam - 05-23-2021

You need to reverse what ever method you installed it with in the first place. Then start fresh with this...

Code:
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

Then updates are simply..

Code:
sudo youtube-dl --update

Re: how to update software not in repo - timbuck2 - 05-23-2021

(05-23-2021, 02:59 AM)Jerry link Wrote: You need to reverse what ever method you installed it with in the first place. Then start fresh with this...

Code:
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

Then updates are simply..

Code:
sudo youtube-dl --update

Ok, nice...so I uninstalled the version I had and then used the commands you posted to install from yt-dl.org. Afterwards, I got the error when trying to --update or --version the program.

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

I was like what? Isn't python installed by default on every system these days? Confused

hrug

But I went ahead and tried this:

Code:
sudo apt-get install python

And it installed "python-is-python2" package and now it works and youtube-dl is up to date.

Re: how to update software not in repo - Moltke - 05-23-2021

I know it's been marked as solved and everything, but I just wanted to add that this /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory message error, doesn't have to do with python not being installed, but youtube-dl still looking for python2, which is deprecated and that's why when you installed the pkg python-is-python2 youtube-dl worked. You can verify with

Code:
cat $(which youtube-dl)

for python3 you should see

Code:
 moltke  ~  cat $(which youtube-dl)

#!/usr/bin/python3

if you instead see this

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python

which you probably will, then youtube-dl is indeed looking for python2. This pkg http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/universe/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2021.04.07-0ubuntu1_all.deb has that line set properly pointing to python3.

Also, this

Code:
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.

Is because of youtube api changes made by google, which they do quite often.