how to update software not in repo

[timbuck2]

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?  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.