youtube-dl

1. 2018-05-21 at 7:44 PM UTC

   #1
   

   NARCassist gollums fat coach
   anyone got any idea wtf i'm going wrong with this shit
   
   

   
   bash: /usr/bin/mint-fortune: No such file or directory
   user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ youtube-dl<http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2whwiz>
   bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
   user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ 
   

   
   
   would really appreciate a heads up wi this shit.
   
   
   
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2. 2018-05-21 at 7:54 PM UTC

   #2
   

   Rock_N_Rollover African Astronaut [my obsessively old-time raunch]
3. 2018-05-21 at 8:22 PM UTC

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   mso8 Houston
   have you tried removing and reinstalling? dont know about how this shit works but i remember yt-dl acting up in the past. if reinstalling doesnt work try searching for the version number and complaints on github or where ever its published. usually there is someone that posts hotfixes for various shit that breaks the program.
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4. 2018-05-21 at 8:44 PM UTC

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   NARCassist gollums fat coach
   i reinstalled and made no difference, i'll look into the github now tho, thx.
   
   
   
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5. 2018-05-21 at 8:45 PM UTC

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   NARCassist gollums fat coach
   do you know what the bash command is to check what version it is tho?
   
   
   
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6. 2018-05-21 at 10:01 PM UTC

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   Soyboy African Astronaut [relevantly rival my dehydroretinol]
   bash -version
   
   Also are you supposed to use the diamond brackets?
   
   Will
   

   youtube-dl http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2whwiz

   
   work?
   
   There are also GUI methods, such as VideoDownloadHelper on Firefox which you might find easier to use.
7. 2018-05-21 at 11:56 PM UTC

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   mso8 Houston

   Originally posted by NARCassist do you know what the bash command is to check what version it is tho?
   
   
   
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   nah sorry, its been a while since ive used linux
8. 2018-05-21 at 11:57 PM UTC

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   mso8 Houston
   one last resort might be to downgrade to an older version. but i remember that to be particularly shitty. maybe not its been a while
   
   godspeed
9. 2018-05-22 at 3:24 AM UTC

   #9
   

   NARCassist gollums fat coach

   Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING bash -version
   
   Also are you supposed to use the diamond brackets?
   
   Will
   

   youtube-dl http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2whwiz

   
   work?
   
   There are also GUI methods, such as VideoDownloadHelper on Firefox which you might find easier to use.

   
   nope
   
   

   
   bash: /usr/bin/mint-fortune: No such file or directory
   user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ youtube-dl http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2whwiz
   
   [dailymotion] x2whwiz: Downloading webpage
   ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:510: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>
   user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ 
   user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ 
   
   

   
   
   i don't use ff atm, using chromium coz its lighter for this slow old machine i got.
   
   the reason i was trying to get yt-dl to work was coz none of those add-ons seem to work dling video these days either. the best option i been finding lately is http://onlinevideoconverter.com, but even that isn't 100%, they seem to be in a constant cat and mouse game with yt blocking it one day then ovc re-writing the scripts to get around it. so some days it'll work and others not.
   
   
   
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10. 2018-05-22 at 11:04 AM UTC

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    Soyboy African Astronaut [relevantly rival my dehydroretinol]
    It works fine when you install the latest version.
    
    The version I got by running apt seems to be a 2016 vintage.
    The current version is 2018.05.18
    
    Check version with:
    

    youtube-dl --version

    
    
    To upgrade, first run
    

    sudo apt remove youtube-dl

    
    
    then restart the terminal, then follow
    https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
    or just:
    

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

    
    
    and restart the terminal again.
11. 2018-05-22 at 11:28 AM UTC

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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    ok, i'm getting this, lol.
    
    

    
    bash: /usr/bin/mint-fortune: No such file or directory
    user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ youtube-dl --version
    2014.02.17
    user1@user1-AMILO-L-Series ~ $ 
    
    

    
    
    
    
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12. 2018-05-22 at 11:29 AM UTC

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    Soyboy African Astronaut [relevantly rival my dehydroretinol]
    So it's 4 years old. Do the upgrade thing I specified above.
13. 2018-05-22 at 11:30 AM UTC

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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    i guess that'd explain it.
    
    
    
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