Yt-dlp installed per default in Ubuntu Mate 22.04.5 and upgrade to 24.04.1?

It is not so important, but does someone know whether yt-dlp will be installed automatically (as default package) in Mate22.04.5 and/or the further upgrade to 24.04.1 ?
Or is there a dependency that yt-dlp will be installed by a dependency.
I have a 3 days fresh system and does not know why my system has a yt-dlp in
/usr/bin

Looks like it's installed by default because:

ubuntu-mate-desktop  Recommends celluloid
celluloid            Recommends yt-dlp

Found out by using this command:

aptitude why yt-dlp

Celluloid is the default video player in Ubuntu MATE. The 22.04 "Jammy" version of the package recommended youtube-dl, but 24.04 "Noble" version of the package recommends yt-dlp instead, so it might get installed on upgrade to 24.04.

I never noticed this myself, since it's definitely not present in the minimal installation.

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Thank you for information.
It is an equal problem in Ubuntu 22.04 if you install the mpv player.
The original problem : yt-dlp installed by packages use a very old yt-dlp version.
I usually install yt-dlp via wget :

wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp
Make it executable

And add the path in .bashrc :

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
...

After installation of the binary and the first test I got an error message, It is a known message for an old yt-dlp version.
But it is easy to remove the yt-dlp package, and celluloid had no problems with the new yt-dlp (it is in the path).

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