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What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

It's fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah. I'll switch to pip then. I've been using the deb package. Thanks!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can't easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.

    If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I'd post an update:

    To install the nightly: pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"

    To update the nightly: pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp

    I alias the update command and run it before every download session.

    (You may need to delete your old yt-dlp binaries before it'll let you install the new one - use type -a yt-dlp to find them.)

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