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.
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).