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Update youtube-dl on mac OS X

I tried to update latest release on youtube-dl but I can't update and while I tried got the error like
"It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update."

Solution

  • Try:

    youtube-dl -U

    If you used pip to install youtube-dl in the first place then, use:

    pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

    If that doesn't work, you can always reinstall it using homebrew:

    brew install youtube-dl