Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread mason
> I did upgrade to a newer version of the Linux kernel since I last tried. Maybe that helped somehow? I see no way in which the kernel version could make a difference here. > Some of the comments here suggest that the problem is youtube-dl running with Python2, instead of Python3. You can

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread strypey
Youtube-dl is now working again. I didn't follow any of the newer instructions above. But if I remember rightly, I did upgrade to a newer version of the Linux kernel since I last tried. Maybe that helped somehow? Centurino > The situation wouldn't be much better on other fixed-release

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread centurino84
> So, would it be fair to say that this is another case of poor old Flidas showing it's age? The situation wouldn't be much better on other fixed-release distros, even those that are currently up-to-date. They will quickly fall behind in their versions of youtube-dl and incompatibilities

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread Yoni Rabkin
vas19...@ya.ru writes: > Why did you call python3 with youtube-dl? Many issues reported about youtube-dl have their fix related to using python3. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread strypey
So, would it be fair to say that this is another case of poor old Flidas showing it's age? I'm really looking forward to Etiona being released. Maybe I'll try youtube-dl on my test install of that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread vas1980i
Why did you call python3 with youtube-dl?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread J.B. Nicholson
stry...@disintermedia.net.nz wrote: Youtube-dl has always worked reliably on my Flidas systems. But in the last few days I noticed it failing to download videos from YT. You don't say what version of youtube-dl you're running, but this version: $ youtube-dl --version 2020.05.08 works fine to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread centurino84
You are right, I did not know that. I have only been using Trisquel for 2 weeks or so and I assumed that it's an option based on the output of youtube-dl. Still, there is a chance that OP installed pip from some third-party source and then youtube-dl through it, so I'll leave that post as

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
centurin...@protonmail.com writes: > Did you install youtube-dl with pip or apt? I'd really recommend > against using apt because the version in the repositories is really > outdated and that's not good considering how often Google updates the > API. If you installed it through pip, you can run:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread centurino84
Did you install youtube-dl with pip or apt? I'd really recommend against using apt because the version in the repositories is really outdated and that's not good considering how often Google updates the API. If you installed it through pip, you can run: sudo pip install --upgrade

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
stry...@disintermedia.net.nz writes: > Thanks for the tip but it didn't work for me. Here's the output: > > strypey@Bishop:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U && python3 'which youtube-dl' > "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YP1TU-L_8; > [sudo] password for strypey: > It looks like you installed youtube-dl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-20 Thread strypey
Thanks for the tip but it didn't work for me. Here's the output: strypey@Bishop:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U && python3 'which youtube-dl' "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YP1TU-L_8; [sudo] password for strypey: It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-20 Thread Yoni Rabkin
stry...@disintermedia.net.nz writes: > Youtube-dl has always worked reliably on my Flidas systems. But in the > last few days I noticed it failing to download videos from YT. > > Here's the terminal output: > > strypey@Bishop:~$ youtube-dl https://yewtu.be/watch?v=O3YP1TU-L_8 > [generic]