Error No Write Permissions On /usr/bin/youtube-dl
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About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Updating youtube-dl gives me ERROR: no write permission up vote 0 down vote favorite I couldn't download anymore with youtube-dl so I uninstalled it and followed this post http://askubuntu.com/a/380460/408472 and I still can't download anything. Now I get an ERROR: Signature extraction failed. Where it encourages me to update youtube-dl. So I type youtube-dl -U and I get this: ERROR: no write permissions on /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl youtube-dl share|improve this question edited Jun 6 '15 at 22:11 Braiam 39k1693154 asked Jun 6 '15 at 20:32 Rin007 3811 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 4 down vote accepted The -U flag updates youtube-dl. To do this, you need root permissions to write in /usr/local/bin/. Try running it again with sudo. sudo youtube-dl -U share|improve this answer answered Jun 6 '15 at 20:39 camconn 1,284416 Thanks, it works. I'm still somewhat new to this. It tells me to restart youtube-dl. Is there a command I can type that does this? –Rin007 Jun 6 '15 at 20:41 1 @Rin007 Normally youtube-dl will close itself automatically. If it doesn't close itself, manually stop it with Ctrl+C on the command line.
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top youtube-dl is not working up https://askubuntu.com/questions/633139/updating-youtube-dl-gives-me-error-no-write-permission/633140 vote 21 down vote favorite 1 I am using youtube-dl to download some videos from youtube. But when I write: youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k I get: [youtube] Setting language [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Downloading video webpage [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Extracting video information ERROR: unable to download video What am I doing wrong? command-line youtube share|improve this question asked Sep 29 '12 at 13:17 Rondogiannis Aristophanes 2391411 1 Did you try to watch http://askubuntu.com/questions/194420/youtube-dl-is-not-working that video? I can't access it from my country. –January Sep 29 '12 at 13:19 When I press this link Is shows it: youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k –Rondogiannis Aristophanes Sep 29 '12 at 13:19 1 Is it a problem with this particular video, or with others as well? –January Sep 29 '12 at 13:22 All the videos I have tried –Rondogiannis Aristophanes Sep 29 '12 at 13:26 This is actually a bug, and I entered a launchpad bug *bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1128610) that refers to the upstream fix. –nealmcb Feb 18 '13 at 1:56 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 27 down vote accepted Same question was asked on unix.stackexchange.com. Youtube changed something to make it incompatible with youtube-dl, it's been fixed in the latest version. Use the following to update youtube-dl until the package system gets the updated version: sudo youtube-dl -U Update As noted by sup in the comments youtube-dl is patched in Ubuntu to disable the --update option because of security concerns (the bugreport is here). It is also argued in the bugreport that youtube-dl is a moving target, so the version in the repositories is often out of date. This makes easy upgrade a necessity. Easy upgrade is still possible with e.g. pip. Install like this (you may want to
Sign in Pricing https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/3240 Blog Support Search GitHub This repository Watch 923 Star 20,800 Fork 3,986 rg3/youtube-dl Code Issues 1,301 Pull https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692297 requests 157 Projects 0 Pulse Graphs New issue Download update is not downloadning #3240 Closed jarvii opened this Issue error no Jul 11, 2014 · 1 comment Projects None yet Labels None yet Milestone No milestone Assignees No one assigned 2 participants jarvii commented Jul 11, 2014 Whats wrong now? I have a ubuntu. jarmoadmin@jarmo-EP149AA-AK8-SR1719SF-EL610:~$ youtube-dl error no write -U Updating to version 2014.07.11.3 ... ERROR: no write permissions on /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl jarmoadmin@jarmo-EP149AA-AK8-SR1719SF-EL610:~$ Collaborator jaimeMF commented Jul 11, 2014 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl is probably only writable by the root user, you'll need to use sudo: sudo youtube-dl -U. jaimeMF closed this Jul 11, 2014 Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment Contact GitHub API Training Shop Blog About © 2016 GitHub, Inc. Terms Privacy Security Status Help You can't perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.
Sun, 4 Nov 2012 19:33:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: confirmed, fixed-upstream Merged with 688997 Found in versions 2012.01.05-2~bpo60+1, youtube-dl/2012.02.27+gita171dbf-3, youtube-dl/2012.02.27-1 Fixed in version youtube-dl/2012.09.27-1 Done: Rogério Brito