youtube-dl and KDE neon 18.04

[chimak111]

My KDE neon 18.04 was a clean install and I'm in the process of adding software I want to it.

youtube-dl, direct from the github pages, is what I have on Kubuntu 18.04. I installed it today on KDE neon but got

/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

when I tried to run it.

The answer, if one wants to stay with the github version, is to use:

/your/path/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

and that works for me.

[Snowhog]

You could just create a simlink of /your/path/python3 to /usr/bin/env yes?

[vinnywright]

youtube-dl looks for the link "python" ,,, python2.7 makes that link , it seems python3.6 makes a "python3" link .

you could just make the link python>python3

check by running

ls -la /usr/bin/python*

@hear I get

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Apr 16 10:31[COLOR=#ff0000] /usr/bin/python -> python2.7[/COLOR]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Apr 16 10:31 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3633560 Apr 15 17:51 /usr/bin/python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      33 Apr 15 17:51 /usr/bin/python2.7-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Apr 16 10:31 /usr/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     154 Nov 11  2017 /usr/bin/python2-pbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Jun 21 17:52 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4567672 Sep 12 14:26 /usr/bin/python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4567672 Sep 12 14:26 /usr/bin/python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      10 Jun 21 17:52 /usr/bin/python3m -> python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Apr 16 10:31 /usr/bin/python-config -> python2.7-config

what do you get @chimak111 ?

VINNY

[chimak111]

what do you get @chimak111 ?

VINNY

Thanks for looking into this!

I get

$ ls -la /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Sep 28 13:53 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4567672 Sep 12 23:56 /usr/bin/python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4567672 Sep 12 23:56 /usr/bin/python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      10 Sep 28 13:53 /usr/bin/python3m -> python3.6m
$

Could it be that you have more entries because you added more stuff to your system by now? Mine is relatively new.

I've gone the alias route:

alias yt43='/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f 43 -o "/home/chimak/Downloads/%(title)s" '
alias yt18='/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f 18 -o "/home/chimak/Downloads/%(title)s" '
alias yth='/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -o "/home/chimak/Downloads/%(title)s" '
alias ytu='sudo /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -U'

though I've not tried the last as yet.

[GreyGeek]

I installed youtube-dl from the Bionic repository.
It works fine without a link or an alias.

[vinnywright]

Thanks for looking into this!

I get

$ ls -la /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 Sep 28 13:53 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4567672 Sep 12 23:56 /usr/bin/python3.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4567672 Sep 12 23:56 /usr/bin/python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      10 Sep 28 13:53 /usr/bin/python3m -> python3.6m
$

Could it be that you have more entries because you added more stuff to your system by now? Mine is relatively new.

yes ,,,,as you see I also have python2.7 installed , and lots of other stuff

but like I said , youtube-dl is looking for "python" in /usr/bin and not pythonx.x or pythonx .

VINNY

[vinnywright]

I installed youtube-dl from the Bionic repository.
It works fine without a link or an alias.

that is true ,,,,but we are talking about the git ver that will allow updating with "sudo youtube-dl -U" it is newer and can be kept newer .

VINNY

[chimak111]

that is true ,,,,but we are talking about the git ver that will allow updating with "sudo youtube-dl -U" it is newer and can be kept newer .

VINNY

That indeed is why I'm going with the github version:

$ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --version
2018.09.26
$ apt policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: 2018.03.14-1
$

As you can see, the repo version is already old.

That's why I installed mpv from the repos with "--no-install-recommends" to avoid it pulling the repo version of youtube-dl.

[vinnywright]

That indeed is why I'm going with the github version:

$ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --version
2018.09.26
$ apt policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2018.03.14-1
$

As you can see, the repo version is already old.

That's why I installed mpv from the repos with "--no-install-recommends" to avoid it pulling the repo version of youtube-dl.

I have both versions installed , but the system uses the git ver,

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ youtube-dl --version
[COLOR=#ff0000]2018.09.26[/COLOR]
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
Installed: 2018.03.14-1
Candidate: 2018.03.14-1
Version table:
*** 2018.03.14-1 500
     500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
     500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
     100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ dpkg -l | grep youtube-dl
ii  youtube-dl                                      2018.03.14-1                                     all          downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ ls -la /usr/bin | grep youtube-dl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root          88 Mar 16  2018 youtube-dl
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ which youtube-dl
[COLOR=#ff0000]/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl[/COLOR]
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ ls -la /usr/local/bin | grep youtube-dl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1701941[COLOR=#0000ff] Sep 30 09:56[/COLOR] youtube-dl
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$

the time/date stamp on it shows that I just updated it and the "which" call shows which one the system is using .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

that is true ,,,,but we are talking about the git ver that will allow updating with "sudo youtube-dl -U" it is newer and can be kept newer .

VINNY

Oh, Ok...

$ sudo youtube-dl -U

Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.

So I used:

$ [FONT=courier new][B]sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl[/B][/FONT]

[FONT=courier new][B]$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl[/B][/FONT]

[FONT=courier new][B]$ sudo youtube-dl -U
[/B][/FONT]
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2018.09.26)

I installed it over the version in the repository, so all the Python dependencies and links were already satisfied.

Thanks for the info!

[vinnywright]

Oh, Ok...

So I used:

$ [FONT=courier new][B]sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl[/B][/FONT]

[FONT=courier new][B]$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl[/B][/FONT]

[FONT=courier new][B]$ sudo youtube-dl -U
[/B][/FONT]
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2018.09.26)

I installed it over the version in the repository, so all the Python dependencies and links were already satisfied.

Thanks for the info!

you now have both as well ,,,,, the Ubuntu "youtube-dl" installs to "/usr/bin" the one from "yt-dl.org" you used "wget" to get , installs to "/usr/local/bin"
the system will give you that one over the first .

check "which youtube-dl"

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

you now have both as well ,,,,, the Ubuntu "youtube-dl" installs to "/usr/bin" the one from "yt-dl.org" you used "wget" to get , installs to "/usr/local/bin"
the system will give you that one over the first .

check "which youtube-dl"

VINNY

$ which youtube-dl
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

$ vdir /usr/bin/youtube-dl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409 Sep 14 21:11 /usr/bin/youtube-dl

I uninstalled the repository version.

You're the master, Vinny!

[vinnywright]

$ which youtube-dl
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

$ vdir /usr/bin/youtube-dl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409 Sep 14 21:11 /usr/bin/youtube-dl

You're the master, Vinny!

I use it a lot , so am somewhat aware of it.

VINNY

[joneall]

I just got back from a 2-week trip and am still a bit out of it. Above all, I don't understand the bit about git and am leery of anything called youtube-something.

I plan to do a clean install of the 18.04 Neon and am wondering what version I should use. Should I install the git version or not? Woulld someone please either explain or point me to an explanation.

Do I understand correctly that there are now at least three ways of doing line-mode updates: apt-get, pkcon and youtube-dl?

Thanks in advance.

[chimak111]

Forget about youtube-dl. That's a downloader for YouTube videos

If you want a relatively stable experience with KDE Neon, choose the user edition from https://neon.kde.org/download which will take you to https://files.kde.org/neon/images/ne...ition/current/, and read the FAQ at the top of this page: https://neon.kde.org/faq

Re. apt-get, apt, and pkcon, please see https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...konsole-output. sudo apt update followed by sudo apt full-upgrade should keep your system up to date.