I didn't know about backports, although I am a long time Debian user.
Maybe it's because I was lazy to read any manual :).
I am on Debian 10 stable and I can confirm that youtube-dl works via
backports.
I followed the instructions on:
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ and it worked.
F
I think the proper Debian way to handle such tools, is to install them
from backports. youtube-dl from buster-backports is currently
up-to-date with upstream
https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/youtube-dl.
Maybe debian-installer does not make it clear enough that enabling
backports is str
As far as I know, youtube-dl can be installed and updated through pip.
I think updating packages if we can is a better idea than removing
them. It might be useful to put a warning saying that "Youtube is a
propriatery script and makes breaking changes very fast. If this
software doesn't work you c
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