youtube-dl

[kerasi]

Hello

i have installed OpenBSD 5.7 amd64 and i want to install the newest youtube-dl

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

but it dont work i dont get the newest one 2015.11.10

so what do i have to do?

i get also this message

env: python:No such file or Directory when i start youtube-dl

so what will be the right way to install this from that site

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

thanks in advance

[TronDD]

Use the OpenBSD package so it installs the necessary dependencies.

pkg_add youtube-dl

Tim.

[kerasi]

thank you

i will try it when iam at home :-)

[jggimi]

Youtube changes their interfaces regularly. It is possible that the version of youtube-dl packaged for 5.7 is no longer usable. If so, consider upgrading to OpenBSD 5.8, which was released October 18.

[shep]

www/youtube-dl is essentially a python script that the package installs in /usr/local/bin/.

I usually forego the package and install it directly from the upstream youtube-dl using
# wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.11.10/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl and then making /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl executable. Note that the "2015.11.10" directory changes are more frequent than OpenBSD releases.

The command includes means to update itself:

# youtube-dl -U

You likely can also update the openbsd package but you will have minor issues with deleting the package later.

[kerasi]

many thanks to you i will answer if it works if not i will install to 5.8 :-)

[bashrules]

env: python:No such file or Directory when i start youtube-dl

You need to install python.

[shep]

Originally Posted by bashrules

env: python:No such file or Directory when i start youtube-dl

You need to install python.

There are two python versions in OpenBSD 5.8

python-2.7.10 interpreted object-oriented programming language
python-3.4.3 interpreted object-oriented programming language

.

Either version should work although I think the OpenBSD www/youtube-dl pulls python2.7

On my system 3.4.3 is a libreoffice dependency. I usually use python2.7 as my system python. After installing python-2.7.10, there are instructions on how to make the necessary soft links.

If you want to use this package as your default system python, as root
create symbolic links like so (overwriting any previous default):
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7 ${PREFIX}/bin/python
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7-2to3 ${PREFIX}/bin/2to3
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7-config ${PREFIX}/bin/python-config
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/pydoc2.7  ${PREFIX}/bin/pydoc

[Oko]

youtube-dl is one of those rare instances where actually pip is useful. Just do

# pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
Collecting youtube-dl
  Downloading youtube_dl-2015.11.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.1MB)
    100% |################################| 1.1MB 288kB/s 
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
  Found existing installation: youtube-dl 2015.10.24
    Uninstalling youtube-dl-2015.10.24:
      Successfully uninstalled youtube-dl-2015.10.24
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2015.11.10

[shep]

@Oko

Thanks.

I was not aware of devel/py-pip. Although I think it would still change the original time/date/ stamp of the package leading to a minor warning with # pkg_delete youtube-dl

[kerasi]

so hello again

:-)

now youtube-dl works i installed

pkg_add py-pip

and create this symbolic links shown above

If you want to use this package as your default system python, as root
create symbolic links like so (overwriting any previous default):
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7 ${PREFIX}/bin/python
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7-2to3 ${PREFIX}/bin/2to3
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/python2.7-config ${PREFIX}/bin/python-config
 ln -sf ${PREFIX}/bin/pydoc2.7  ${PREFIX}/bin/pydoc

and then take this from user Oko

pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

and now it works

many many thanks to all

PS:when i have Holiday i will install OpenBSD 5.8

[comet--berkeley]

Originally Posted by Oko

youtube-dl is one of those rare instances where actually pip is useful.

pip is a command I have not seen in a long long time...

It brought back memories from the late 1970's, early 1980's when it was a standard utility on Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system:

http://www.shaels.net/index.php/cpm8.../6-pip-utility

Gary is the one to blame/credit for the goofy 8.3 file name convention used in the MS/DOS file systems. In those days 64k of ram was a large amount of ram.

[hitest]

Originally Posted by kerasi

PS:when i have Holiday i will install OpenBSD 5.8

I'm sure you will enjoy 5.8 as much as we do.

[Oko]

Originally Posted by comet--berkeley

pip is a command I have not seen in a long long time...

pip is Python package manager circa 2008 which replaced easy_install which was Python package manager since 2004. Other notable package manager for Python is conda. Note that non of the above package manager are useful for installing very complex Python packages like scipy, numpy, or matplotlib. Those have to installed from ports and their compilation on OpenBSD is non-trivial.

One of other notable package manager is cabal (for Haskell). It works pretty well on OpenBSD and can be used for example to install a really useful package pandoc which is not in OpenBSD ports tree.