I get an error when i try to update YouTube-dl in 18.04

Question

When I type youtube-dl -U, I get this error:

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

Answer 1

If you want/need the latest youtube-dl (and can't wait for it to be packaged & installed via debian/ubuntu .deb)

pip install update youtube-dl

pip is the package management tool for python (the language that youtube-dl is written in).

[ If you haven't pip installed; you can install it with sudo apt install python-pip]