How to set environment variable for the updated youtube-dl installed from pip3?

Question

I referred to an answer here to install youtube-dl using pip. Although youtube-dl was installed by default in my Ubuntu 20.04, by apt, but it was outdated and showing errors.

Besides, I used pip3 to install it by the command,

pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl

and also uninstalled the outdated youtube-dl by the apt package manager.

When I use the command pip3 show youtube-dl, it shows an output as following:

Name: youtube-dl
Version: 2020.6.16.1
Summary: YouTube video downloader
Home-page: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Author: Ricardo Garcia
Author-email: ytdl@yt-dl.org
License: Unlicense
Location: /home/vivek/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Requires: 
Required-by:

I guess now I have to set it as environment variable so I can use it, since I am not able to use any of its commands, for eg.,

youtube-dl --version

gives me an output:

bash: /usr/bin/youtube-dl: No such file or directory

Symlink the Python application to someplace on your $PATH, so the shell can find it. — user535733, Jun 25 '20 at 13:42
how to do that? will that work? for I've manually entered the folder there, and tried the command, but it was of no use — kamer_kane, Jun 25 '20 at 13:46
See man ln for how to create a symlink. The shell looks for applications in $PATH; your is not in $PATH, hence the error. DON'T move the folder; that will break things; move it back. — user535733, Jun 25 '20 at 13:48
The files downloaded recide at /home/vivek/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube-dl — kamer_kane, Jun 25 '20 at 13:59
When I go the path, and type, youtube-dl --version , again no output. Maybe I'm missing some bin folder, I'll let you know. — kamer_kane, Jun 25 '20 at 14:03
Try: /home/vivek/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/youtube-dl --version You don't need to go to the path. You simply need to be specific about the executable's location. — user535733, Jun 25 '20 at 14:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '20 at 14:32

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The youtube-dl script is probably located in the /home/vivek/.local/bin directory. In that case all you need to do is to log out and log in again. By doing so the code in your ~/.profile file will automatically add the directory to PATH.

answered Jun 25 '20 at 14:32

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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How to set environment variable for the updated youtube-dl installed from pip3?

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