First remove old version of youtube-dl if installed:
sudo apt-get remove youtube-dl
Next install latest version of youtube-dl and install it:
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
If you have an error such “/usr/bin/env ‘python’ no such file or directory youtube-dl” – thats meen than you does not have installed python, or you install python3. Install python by command:
sudo apt install python-minimal
Or you can start youtube-dl with python3:
python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Or you can create symbolic link python3->python with following command:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python