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  • @CanadaPlus
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    23 months ago

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

    • @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      1 month 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.)