[SOLVED] Youtube-dl

[pjlt]

Hello,
Having changed my OS (Linux Mint) for a newer version, I installed the package "Youtube-dl" present in the initial repository. I noted that the video downloading from Youtube did not work with some videos.
I downloaded from https://yt-dl.org/ the most recent package (.deb) I installed, but the command "youtube-dl" always returns me that youtube-dl is not not installed:

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juillet@juillet-K73SJ ~ $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRsTbD95Qy0Le programme « youtube-dl » n'est pas encore installé. Vous pouvez l'installer en tapant :
sudo apt install youtube-dl
juillet@juillet-K73SJ ~ $ sudo apt install youtube-dl
[sudo] Mot de passe de juillet :
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youtube-dl is already the newest version (2017.12.14-1).
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juillet@juillet-K73SJ ~ $ youtube-dl sudo apt install youtube-dl
Le programme « youtube-dl » n'est pas encore installé. Vous pouvez l'installer en tapant :
sudo apt install youtube-dl
juillet@juillet-K73SJ ~ $ 

Where the problem is?

[ArtGirl]

I'm no tech wizard, but use 2 deb files, one for youtube-dl and one for pip ... the app gives an 'updating' message when I open it the first time.

[all41]

The problem is that youtube-dl version in the repositories is outdated.
You need to get the latest version from youtube-dl.org. The newest version was released 12/14/17--that is the one you want.
Before installing the new version remove the repository version by opening a terminal and copy/paste the following:

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apt purge youtube-dl

I used the curl method explained on the site:

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sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

[Flemur]

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sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

[jimallyn]

The install method presented by all41 and Flemur is the correct one. You can also install youtube-dlg, the GUI interface for youtube-dl, and it has a button to click to download the latest version. I usually use the command line version, but many find the GUI convenient.

[ArtGirl]

The install method presented by all41 and Flemur is the correct one. You can also install youtube-dlg, the GUI interface for youtube-dl, and it has a button to click to download the latest version. I usually use the command line version, but many find the GUI convenient.

My method does work, and is the GUI version.
I'll just stop posting.

[all41]

This gets updated quite often--like every week or so.
I choose to manually update by:

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sudo youtube-dl -U

@ArtGirl,
Yes there are even more ways to accomplish this. All contributions and thoughts are welcome
on this board.

[ArtGirl]

This gets updated quite often--like every week or so.
I choose to manually update by:

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sudo youtube-dl -U

@ArtGirl,
Yes there are even more ways to accomplish this. All contributions and thoughts are welcome
on this board.

Thank you all41; much appreciate.

[pjlt]

Hello! Thank you all,
I have succeeded in installing the latest version of youtube-dl and this one is working.
I used the install method presented by all41 and Flemur.

[phd21]

Hi "pjlt",

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

I have always been using the "webupd8" PPA for installing and automatically updating the "YouTube-DL" console terminal application and the related desktop GUI "YouTube-DLG" application. As with most PPA's, you can also install the Linux deb files instead of using the PPA, but then you might not get the updates...

Youtube-dl gui 0.4 ships with new user interface, more [ppa], August 11, 2017
http://www.webupd8.org/2017/08/youtube- ... -user.html

To install "youtube-dl" and "youtube-dlg" using the PPA method, open a console terminal, type in, or copy & paste, each line below one by one:
Click "Select All" above command, right click the highlighted command, select Copy (or Ctrl+Insert), click in the console terminal window, and right click paste (or Shift+Insert), repeat for each command.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install youtube-dl youtube-dlg

YouTube-DL : A Powerful YouTube Video Downloader For Linux, SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
- shows various installation options and instructions...
https://www.2daygeek.com/youtube-dl-com ... -opensuse/


FYI: Other "Youtube-dl" type applications to consider.

Ktube downloader - various installation options, like Linux "deb" files, or AppImage, etc...
https://keshavbhatt.github.io/Ktube-med ... /#download

4K video downloader
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/pro ... downloader


Hope this helps ...

[jimallyn]

I'll just stop posting.

No, no, no. In the past anyway, installing from the .deb provides a much older version, which, considering how often youtube-dl gets updated, is less than satisfactory for most people. Apparently that has been fixed now? I certainly don't intend to run you off!

[all41]

Hello! Thank you all,
I have succeeded in installing the latest version of youtube-dl and this one is working.
I used the install method presented by all41 and Flemur.

You're welcome pjlt.
Not sure if you are aware of some of the options. If you enter youtube-dl -F <url> it will show you all the different
resolutions and audio rates available and there will be a number associated with each. This allows you several options such as download only the audio at your preferred bitrate.
Then use that number like this:
youtube-dl -f <pkg number> <url>
notice the f is lowercase this time
for example: youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiUkbE_ktHs
This will download only the audio from this random selection

[ArtGirl]

I'll just stop posting.

No, no, no. In the past anyway, installing from the .deb provides a much older version, which, considering how often youtube-dl gets updated, is less than satisfactory for most people. Apparently that has been fixed now? I certainly don't intend to run you off!

Okay, thanks. I'd just found the latest deb, and noticed on install it says 'updating', plus you can select 'update' in the settings menu and it does that, showing 'downloading latest youtube-dl'. It says it's Youtube-DLG 0.4 the same as it did before, so I'm not sure it has updated, but, whatever version, it works great. It's the youtube-dlg_0.4-1-webupd8-xenial4_all.deb I initially installed. When trying the 2017 one, it says a later version is installed already.

[aes2011]

If it works great, that's fine but the latest version available for me is

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$ youtube-dl --version                                       
2017.10.15.1
$ 

And I just used

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sudo youtube-dl -U

to update to version 2017.12.14.

[pjlt]

Thank you all !
I'm keeping that topic in a corner, to solve a possible problem, in the future.