On Saturday, 01-02-2025 at 03:57 Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > > The same (now that I am using backports):
> > > $ yt-dlp --version
> > > 2025.01.15
> >
> > In fact, 2025.01.26 just landed in bookworm-backports today.
>
> 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 ?
Roger,
I was not able to find a way to select and install backports from Synaptic. If
someone can explain how, that would be helpful.
I noticed that Synaptic was showing the installed version (whether the package
was installed from stable or from backports.
I wanted to install both yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
As I already had these two packages installed from stable, I decided to
uninstall the stable packages before installing the backports versions.
# apt remove yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
With backports repositories included in the /etc/apt/sources.list, I logged
into a terminal as root, then I used the below method (which is a different
syntax than that posted by others, but I believe it does the same thing):
# apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
You do not need to install youtubedl-gui but I found it to be a simple and
effective GUI frontend to yt-dlp.
You can find more details at:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports
Example of Backports in /etc/apt/sources.list
# bookworm-backports, previously on backports.debian.org
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
George.
>
> Roger
>
