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The above proposal: >With `--recode-video ...`, the option value specifies a certain required container type, with whatever required media conversion, and there isn't a way to be more specific. >...

If you were to clone the repo and exercise the `git log` function, a suitable email address might be revealed. Having said that, I am sceptical that any yt-dl bug...

For the moment, install the _python-is-python3_ package. Or `sudo ln /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python`. [Debian decided](https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/) that there shouldn't be a `python` command by default, perhaps to flush out Py 2 dependencies....

If you installed the _python-is-python3_ package they wouldn't be wrong, would they? And you can always uninstall it if you want none of your Python scripts to run, which is...

Don't the original suggestions [here](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30129#issuecomment-946748616) help?

So either of the proposed solutions should work, assuming that Kubuntu 20.04 still has _python-is-python3_. The proposal with the `ln` command is making a link in the `/usr/local/bin/` directory, which...

[Here](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530#issuecomment-1449990989) is a script that can be used in POSIX shell, adapting as necessary, to modify the shebang of single file self-extracting yt-dl program, and possibly any other script.

Why on earth would you do that rather than just making a `python` link on your `PATH` that points to your preferred Python? `~/bin` may be in your `PATH` but...

Youtube-dl is a Python program, not a Python2 or Python3 program. When Python2 was more of a thing, and when yt-dl was created, Python2 **was** Python. My personal memory of...

With such macOS, or if Debian abandons the package mentioned, either * install using `-m pip` with a Python that is available, or * create a symlink to some Python...