On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote: > James McDermott wrote: > >On 10/19/06, Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>There's a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that converts the > >>embedded video into a download link, which lets you save > >>the .flv file to your hard disk for playback or conversion using > >>mplayer. > > > >If you don't have Greasemonkey this might be easier: > > > >http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ > > > > > can you please tell what of python stuff you have installed? > i have 2.4.3 python and the same version of python-minimal, but the > executable wants not to start, complaining that python is missing. AFAICT it requires nothing but python 2.4 and the standard libraries. The "hashbang" at the beginning of the script reads: #!/usr/bin/env python This is a common trick to avoid needing to know where the python interpreter lives. Two things could go wrong with that: 1) You might not have "env" installed, or it might be somewhere other than /usr/bin. (It's provided by gnu coreutils so i'd be amazed if your distro doesn't have it.) Try this: env --version which env 2) If you have multiple python versions installed, it's likely that 'python' is a symlink to the wrong one. youtube-dl is hardcoded to exit if the version is less than 2.4, with the message 'Error: Python 2.4 or later needed to run the program' Try this: ls -l `which python` and/or /usr/bin/env python -V ... and see what that tells you. If you need to keep around an earlier version of python as the default python, a workaround is to invoke 2.4 directly, typically something like: python2.4 /path/to/youtube-dl ... If that works, wrap it up as a shell alias for convenience, e.g. in .bashrc: alias youtube-dl="/usr/bin/python2.4 /path/to/youtube-dl" -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
