A query about backports and command line youtube downloaders

[Bret Busby]

On 24/4/24 21:27, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 24/4/24 21:18, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Am Mittwoch, dem 24.04.2024 um 21:03 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>> So, I am wondering how I find whether these versions that I have, are
>>> the versions from the  ubuntu jammy-backports repository, and, how I
>>> find what version of a package, is in the ubuntu jammy-backports
>>> repository.
>>
>> apt policy <packagename>
>>
>> will show you where a package comes from or if there are any newer
>> versions  in one of the repos ...
>>
> 
> Thank you for that.
> 
> The response that I get, is
> 
> "
> :~ > apt policy yt-dlp
> yt-dlp:
>    Installed: 2022.04.08-1
>    Candidate: 2022.04.08-1
>    Version table:
>       2024.04.09-1~bpo22.04.1 100
>          100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe 
> amd64 Packages
>          100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe 
> i386 Packages
>   *** 2022.04.08-1 500
>          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
>          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> "
> 
> What does that mean, in terms of the status of version
> 2024.04.09-1~bpo22.04.1 100
> with regard to the backports repository, and, whether Synaptic and the 
> Update Manager should find that version?
> 
> Do I need to use a command line command, rather than a GUI package 
> manager, to update the package, if the package is available but unseen 
> to the GUI package managers?
> 
My understanding, from the web page at
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation
on the right hand side, under the heading "Packaging status, is that the 
version
2024.04.09
is packaged for 22.04 backports.

So, this is confusing.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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