I use youtube-dl fairly infrequently... maybe once a month or so. Nearly every time I used it it would not download the video I wanted - so I'd do a "youtube-dl

I use youtube-dl fairly infrequently... maybe once a month or so. Nearly every time I used it it would not download the video I wanted - so I'd do a "youtube-dl -u", then it would work. Just spreading the repo around isn't going to help for very long.