On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 17:57 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I followed the instructions for synaptic at https://wiki.debian.org and added > the repository > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free > > I clicked on ¨Reload" to reload the package listings and searched for yt-dlp. > > The installed and latest versions are both given as 2023.03.04-1 . > > How do you get to the bookworm-backports ?
Packages from backports are pinned with low priority (100) and never installed by default. So in order to install a backported package, you need to do it like: apt install yt-dlp/bookworm-backports Not sure how to do it in Synaptic.
