I'm sorry if this is a beginner question, but I did not find the answer elsewhere.
Here a user installed youtube-dl using apt-get install, but the program did not run without errors.
They said the solution was to install by using:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
But the reason for the problem was not given, which leaves me confused.
So it appears that the first installs youtube-dl using Ubuntus standard repositories, and the second installs it directly from yt-dl.org.
But if this problem has been going on for months, why is it that youtube-dl is in the repositories and does not work? Am I not correct to be paranoid of installing things outside of Ubuntu's repositories?
