youtube-dl package is very outdated

[Jason Benjamin]

There is also a frontend with youtube-dl builtin called youtube-dlg 
installable with a ppa: 
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/multi-platform-youtube-dl-gui-youtube.html 
(blog)


On 09/03/2016 09:31 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/151283/why-dont-the-ubuntu-repositories-have-the-latest-versions-of-software#151304
>
> If you want/need a newer version of youtube-dl, you could:
>
> 1) Download the script manually from their website.
> 2) Install it with pip.
> 3) See if Debian unstable or experimental has a newer version and try
>      that.
>
> All on your own risk, of course.
>
> Petter
>

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