Post #4209205

debian Just Works except when it inexplicably fucking doesn't so for yt-dlp i have to run the windows binary in wine which means i have to install the ffmpeg.exe and deno.exe (javascript) binaries by hand for shit to work at least windows yt-dlp updates and works correctly this is what the yt-dlp linux "binary", downloaded from the yt-dlp site itself, does: $ /home/fun/bin/yt-dlp Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "", line 88, in _run_code File "/home/fun/bin/yt-dlp/__main__.py", line 14, in import yt_dlp File "/home/fun/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__init__.py", line 18, in from .downloader.external import get_external_downloader File "/home/fun/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/__init__.py", line 26, in from .external import FFmpegFD, get_external_downloader File "/home/fun/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/downloader/external.py", line 12, in from ..postprocessor.ffmpeg import EXT_TO_OUT_FORMATS, FFmpegPostProcessor File "/home/fun/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/postprocessor/__init__.py", line 4... Read more i'm sure it's trivial and also i have no idea and it shouldn't fucking happen ubuntu's fix the papercuts programme was a tremendous contribution to the free desktop and i'm deeply annoyed they went slop EDIT: thanks, I have a working yt-dlp and don't need a new hobby getting the nonworking one to work, thanks. my point is that none of the workarounds you are listing - all different - should be necessary.