How to install Youtube-dl on Lubuntu 17.10

Youtube-dl is command line tool for downloading videos from youtube as well as other sites that has video that you wish to download, youtube-dl is amazing. In this article i will show you how to properly install youtube-dl on lubuntu 17.10 artful.

Youtube-dl is actually available on lubuntu/ubuntu repository, so you can just install it with apt or apt-get install command, but unfortunately the youtube-dl on lubuntu repo is not really good, i mean it's probably the old version. So we better download from the maker itself.

How to install youtube-dl on Lubuntu 17.10

• open command line/terminal on lubuntu
• run update command

sudo apt-get update

• install curl

sudo apt-get install curl

• run curl to get the latest youtube-dl binary

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

• give permission to youtube-dl binary

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

• done!

How to use youtube-dl command line
To download youtube videos all you have to do is run youtube-dl followed by the url of the video that you wish to download, here's an example:

youtube-dl [youtube-video-url]

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2S87jXhlV0

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DYjfjaZGas

If for some reason you got an error when running youtube-dl, like /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory or something, then you need to install python-minimal package like this:

sudo apt-get install python-minimal