youtube-dl not found

[Robert24]

Hello everyone,

I had to reinstall my kubuntu 16.04 recently and I try to get back everything I was using before. One thing I loved was youtube-dl.

I followed the instruction there:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/bl...README.md#bugs

but it doesn't seem to have installed youtube-dl:

me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                              Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
0     3    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
0     3    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100   599    0   599    0     0    300      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--  3103
100 1592k  100 1592k    0     0  74975      0  0:00:21  0:00:21 --:--:--  107k
me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyRJBuoPrQ"
bash: /usr/bin/youtube-dl: No such file or directory

Is it possible that there my PATH variable doesn't contain the right address to the directory where it was installed (/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl from what I see above). I have this impression:

me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ $PATH
bash: /home/me/anaconda3/bin:/home/me/bin:/home/me/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin: No such file or directory

Should I add the path to my PATH? How do I do it? And why is youtube-dl put in a directory where a priori linux doesn't look?

Or should I move the directory containing the code of youtube-dl in another folder?

Best

[vinnywright]

Hello everyone,

I had to reinstall my kubuntu 16.04 recently and I try to get back everything I was using before. One thing I loved was youtube-dl.

I followed the instruction there:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/bl...README.md#bugs

but it doesn't seem to have installed youtube-dl:

me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                             Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
0     3    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
0     3    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100   599    0   599    0     0    300      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--  3103
100 1592k  100 1592k    0     0  74975      0  0:00:21  0:00:21 --:--:--  107k
me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyRJBuoPrQ"
bash:[COLOR=#ff0000] /usr/bin/youtube-dl[/COLOR]: No such file or directory

Is it possible that there my PATH variable doesn't contain the right address to the directory where it was installed (/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl from what I see above). I have this impression:

me:~/Music/Youtube_Songs$ $PATH
bash: /home/me/anaconda3/bin:/home/me/bin:/home/me/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin: No such file or directory

Should I add the path to my PATH? How do I do it? And why is youtube-dl put in a directory where a priori linux doesn't look?

Or should I move the directory containing the code of youtube-dl in another folder?

Best

try this ,,,,,,,,

ls /usr/local/bin | grep youtube-dl

dose this return "youtube-dl" if yes then it's installed ,,,,,,if not ,,,,do ,,,,,,

locate youtube-dl

if this returns nothing then it's not installed .

in your output's ubuve I see a anomaly ,,,I'v marked it in red ,,,,,,,IF youtube-dl is in /usr/local/bin/ then that last run was looking in the wrong place

and all these places are in your $PATH

VINNY

[jlittle]

There's something not right there. I suspect there is or was a dead link in /usr/bin, and bash is remembering that in its hash table. That would give the output you've given us. In bash you could try

ls -l /usr/bin/youtuble-dl
hash
hash -r

The ls might not show anything, I've just tried it and deleting the /usr/bin entry still didn't persuade bash to check $PATH again. hash will show if my suspicion is correct, and hash -r will fix it.

[Robert24]

Thank you to both of you for your answer!

@vinnywright youtube-dl seems to be installed:

me:~$ ls /usr/local/bin | grep youtube-dl
youtube-dl

so what should I do? I guess I need to change this PATH variable right? Or is it better to put youtube-dl in another directory (for now it is in /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl)?

@jittle I entered your commands and got the following output:

me:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/youtuble-dl
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/youtuble-dl': No such file or directory
me:~$ hash
hits    command
  1    /bin/ls
me:~$ hash -r

(there was no output for the last command)

Any advice?

[chimak111]

Thanks @jlittle for the hash -r bit!

@Robert24, here's some reading about it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-documentation

And

locate youtube-dl | grep -v cache

should confirm that youtube-dl is where it's supposed to be and that's in /usr/local/bin.

If the locate command comes up blank, run sudo updatedb to refresh the database.

BTW,

what does apt policy youtube-dl show? If you've installed something like mpv from the standard repos, it pulls in an ancient version of youtube-dl which I purge before installing the github version.

[Robert24]

Thank you for your answer chimak111,

Here is the output of the locate command:

me:~$ locate youtube-dl | grep -v cache
/home/me/anaconda3/envs/my_python35/bin/youtube-dl
/home/me/anaconda3/envs/my_python35/etc/bash_completion.d/youtube-dl.bash-completion
/home/me/anaconda3/envs/my_python35/etc/fish/completions/youtube-dl.fish
/home/me/anaconda3/envs/my_python35/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

I guess I installed youtube dl when one of my conda environment was active (in the past) and then reinstalled it later. But I'm pretty sure I wasn't using this my_python35 before when I was using youtube-dl (before I reinstalled kubuntu), and as I don't need this environment anymore I think I will erase it. Unless you think it might be related to my problem.

Any further suggestions?

[chimak111]

Sorry, I can't say for sure but having an executable in two locations maybe part of the issue. I'm guessing that getting rid of the anaconda one should solve your problems.

[Bings]

You could try installing qmplay2, that installs youtube-dl as part of it.

[Robert24]

I removed the anaconda environment my_python35 and now youtube-dl is working!

You're really amazing guys! You make my life better!

[jlittle]

I removed the anaconda environment my_python35 and now youtube-dl is working!

That's peachy.

I find the $PATH variable hard to read, and easy to miss obscure entries. I've been confused by it often over the years. So, now I use an alias, defined in my .bashrc in my home directory:

$ echo $PATH
/home/john/bin::/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
$ alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'
$ path
/home/john/bin

/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games
/snap/bin

(The blank entry means the current working directory, frowned on as insecure for sysadmins.)