Updating youtube-dl gives me ERROR: no write permission

Question

I couldn't download anymore with youtube-dl so I uninstalled it and followed this post https://askubuntu.com/a/380460/408472 and I still can't download anything. Now I get an ERROR: Signature extraction failed. Where it encourages me to update youtube-dl.

So I type youtube-dl -U and I get this:

ERROR: no write permissions on /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '15 at 20:39

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The -U flag updates youtube-dl.

To do this, you need root permissions to write in /usr/local/bin/. Try running it again with sudo.

sudo youtube-dl -U

answered Jun 06 '15 at 20:39

camconn

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Thanks, it works. I'm still somewhat new to this. It tells me to restart youtube-dl. Is there a command I can type that does this? – Rin007 Jun 06 '15 at 20:41
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@Rin007 Normally youtube-dl will close itself automatically. If it doesn't close itself, manually stop it with Ctrl+C on the command line... And remember to mark as solved if this helped out. – camconn Jun 06 '15 at 20:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 20:40

Those commands should update the script (as well as install it), so you don't need to run youtube-dl -U, you can run them again to update it to the latest version.

However, if you want to run youtube-dl -U, you can use:

sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

to make your user the owner of the file, and then you should have write access.

Updating youtube-dl gives me ERROR: no write permission

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