Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> Commented lines are not taken into account. >> >> The format you specify above is correct. >> >> The problem seems to be with the youtube-dl version you are using. I get no >> such problems with youtube-dl version 2020.09.20. > > I'm on this: > > > root@fireball / # youtube-dl --version > 2020.06.16.1 > root@fireball / # > > > How does one update? Should I use the youtube-dl update tool or is > there a way to do it with emerge but point it somewhere beside git or > whatever that RIAA took down? > > Gonna google in the meantime. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
OK. Did some googling, startpaging actually, and found some commands. Obviously this is outside of emerge and I wish I didn't have to update it this way. Also, I haven't done this yet. The commands I found are this: wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl Since I can't recall the last time I installed something without emerge doing it, I got questions. Should that work? I have wget installed of course. Will this be easy to undo when a replacement comes along? Delete a directory or something and it's gone?? Can I leave the current version installed since I can't upgrade and the current working one may no longer be available to re-emerge? I'd assume I'd need to include the path to it as well to make sure it runs the correct one?? I've seen forks already popping up. Is there any hope that one of those will be added to the tree until this sorts out? I read somewhere that it is being fought. I think EFF is involved along with others. Plus, with the forks already taking off, the RIAA didn't accomplish anything with this stupid action. It just created more options for people to install and use. Instead of playing whack-a-mole with one hole, they now have several holes to whack at. Sort of stupid to attempt this really. I suspect the RIAA is about to learn a huge lesson in how free software works. ;-) May do this later depending on responses. I don't use youtube-dl often but right now, I found a gold mine of videos I want to save. My DSL is to slow to stream them anyway so downloading them is best, plus I don't have to worry about them being censored for some stupid reason and then gone. I get them while I can. Thanks for any info. Dale :-) :-)
