Having difficult time using or downloading videos with Youtube-dl

Question

Having difficult time using or downloading videos from Youtube it keeps saying

bash: /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: Permission denied

I don't even know if I installed it correctly. My OS is Ubuntu 15.10 64.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 13:57

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It's possible the executable does not have the correct permissions.

For it to be in /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl, you probably ran it with a sudo make install or similar. it's in there as root:root which is fine, but it's not going to work right.

Let's set the executable bit: sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Then try and use youtube-dl.

answered Apr 20 '16 at 13:57

Thomas Ward

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I think your method works it just started downloading after i enter your instructions. thanx – En20 Apr 20 '16 at 14:49
@En20 Great! If this helped you, feel free to click the check mark on my answer to mark this question as resolved, and to mark my answer as the one that solved it. – Thomas Ward Apr 20 '16 at 20:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 14:05

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Try to install it via pip3

At first intall python3-pip python-pip

 sudo apt-get install python3-pip python-pip

then

 sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl

answered Apr 20 '16 at 14:05

kenn

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Ok i installed them both, what next/ – En20 Apr 20 '16 at 14:43
not downloading still getting this bash: /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: Permission denied – En20 Apr 20 '16 at 14:47
how do you use that command? Try this youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcmFa-JVWU --output file.mp4 – kenn Apr 20 '16 at 15:34
What is the output of ls -lhia /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl ? – kenn Apr 20 '16 at 15:37

Having difficult time using or downloading videos with Youtube-dl

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