Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:56, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O >> /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl >> chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > This should work just fine, you just need to specify the path when you > want to use it. > > Not sure how wise the following is, but you could also just put it > directly in /usr/bin/ as well, and then it would continue to work as > normal, and portage would update it when/if a new version is released. > > Regards, > Arve > >
I finally got it installed in /usr/local/bin. I get the same error. I removed all the video links but this is what I get when I put the options on the command line itself with the conf file commented out completely. dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Videos/TV_Series/Midsomer_Murders $ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --format 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' <Lots of video links that include HD versions> ERROR: u'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to search YouTube dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Videos/TV_Series/Midsomer_Murders $ Version info. dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Videos/TV_Series/Midsomer_Murders $ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --version 2020.11.01.1 dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Videos/TV_Series/Midsomer_Murders $ So, latest version, doesn't like the conf file or the option on the command line itself. What next? Is there a tiny typo in there or something? Dale :-) :-)
