Update youtube-dl on mac OS X

Question

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."

How did you try to update it? – mipadi Apr 18 '16 at 21:06 — mipadi, Apr 18 '16 at 21:06
@mipadi I followed youtube-dl documentation – iPC Apr 19 '16 at 06:09 — iPC, Apr 19 '16 at 06:09

Bivek · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-24T10:18:54.213

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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

edited Apr 24 '16 at 10:18

answered Apr 24 '16 at 10:03

Bivek

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '18 at 08:27

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To install use: brew install youtube-dl

To upgrade use: brew upgrade youtube-dl

answered Jul 20 '18 at 08:27

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Update youtube-dl on mac OS X

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