yt-dlp install the latest version on freebsd

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Freebsd install the latest version of yt-dlp even if you are running quarterly packages.
Quarterly packages are released every 3 months which means the version of yt-dlp will be quite old

freebsd yt-dlp latest release install

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we will manually download the latest release of yt-dlp

however the the yt-dlp shebang points to python3 so we need to fix issue using a symlink
and alter our shell path so binaries in our home bin directory override those installed in /usr/local/bin

this will allow applications that use yt-dlp in the backend to use the lastest version
instead of the old version installed with pkg

the yt-dlp shebang points to python3
so we need to create a symlink from python 3.9 to python3

obviously you need python3.9 installed

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/local/bin/python3

edit your ~/.zshenv

vi ~/.zshenv

set your path so that the bin directory in your home comes before /usr/local/bin

typeset -U PATH path
path=("$HOME/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "$path[@]")
export PATH

this allows us override yt-dlp installed in /usr/local/bin with our newer version install in the bin directory in your home
download yt-dlp from the release on github

Releases · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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make yt-dlp executable

chmod +x yt-dlp

and move it to the bin directory in your home
if you dont have a bin directory create it

mv yt-dlp ~/bin

run which yt-dlp

which yt-dlp

it should output

/home/username/bin/yt-dlp

instead of

/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

check the version

yt-dlp --version

ouput

2023.11.16

pkg version

/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp --version

outputs

2023.07.06

update yt-dlp in your bin directory by running

yt-dlp -U