Hi Félix, I'm sure youtube-dl is working when invoked from command line for downloading an youtube video. However youtube-dl-gui doesn't work with the same URL.
I got this from youtube-dl-gui's log, and it seems to be the reason why youtube-dlg doesn't work for me: [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] Traceback (most recent call last): [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in <module> [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] from pkg_resources import load_entry_point [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3195, in <module> [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] @_call_aside [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3179, in _call_aside [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] f(*args, **kwargs) [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3208, in _initialize_master_working_set [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] working_set = WorkingSet._build_master() [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 681, in _build_master [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] ws.require(__requires__) [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 999, in require [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 885, in resolve [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) [Sun Mar 25 07:35:30 2018] pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'youtube-dl==2018.3.14' distribution was not found and is required by the application The root of problem turns to be clear if you take a look at the package content of youtube-dl provided by debian: $ dpkg -L youtube-dl ... /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl-2018.3.14.egg-info ... It has been migrated to python3. So tt is impossible for youtube-dl-gui to import any python2 resource of youtube-dl. This GUI package only works when user have installed youtube-dl with python2 version of pip or some other methods alike. Unfortunately, I guess this package would get stuck before its transition to python3. Unless there is a simple way to use python3 version of youtube-dl from python2 version of gui. I'm not sure whether it's possible since I didn't look into the code. Regards, Lumin. On 22 February 2018 at 09:51, Félix Sipma <felix+deb...@gueux.org> wrote: > On 2018-02-22 03:27+0000, Lumin wrote: >> I built the package locally, but I did not get it working correctly >> With a YouTube URL. It downloads nothing. >> Could you please provide a url for test so I can make sure >> it is working? >> >> I will look into this problem later. > > It definitely works here... Are you sure entered your urls, selected the > output > format and directory, clicked "add", and then clicked "start"? -- Best,
