Youtube-dl is months out of date in the repos so I installed it using this method
(though I changed the location to usr/bin/youtube-dl as that's what which youtube-dl showed)
but then I get
$ youtube-dl
/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
$ python2 youtube-dl
python2: can't open file 'youtube-dl': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
But it works if I enter
$ python2 /usr/bin/youtube-dl
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
$ python3 /usr/bin/youtube-dl
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
I'm using Xubuntu 20.04, could someone tell me how to fix this?
1 Answer
Starting with 20.04 /usr/bin/python is no longer there. And youtube-dl starts with:
#!/usr/bin/env python
So what you can do is create the symbolic link yourself:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
And then it should work:
$ youtube-dl
