To download a video just open a terminal and type youtube-dl where video.url is the web address of the video. Tip: In the command line you can save time by just typing yout and pressing the Tab key so the shell can autocomplete/expand the name. any user on your system can now just type youtube-dl to access the program. This makes sure that the youtube-dl program is in everyone’s PATH i.e. This copies the youtube-dl file to the /usr/local/ directory where all locally installed and compiled programs are stored. you used wget you should skip the cd ~/Downloads/ command above and follow the following commands. Please note if you used method 2 above i.e. The following commands now apply to both method 1 and 2. This will take you to the directory where youtube-dl is i.e. the browser method please open the terminal and type the command: Preparing youtube-dl If you used the first method i.e. The first method saves the youtube-dl file in the ~/Downloads folder whilst the second method saves the youtube-dl file in the current directory most likely in the /home/user directory where user is the name of the current user. Alternatively you can open the terminal and type the command:. Visit the download page in your browser and right click on the download link and select save as youtube-dl or. This is a command line program which works on all platforms including Windows and yet it is an amazing 103KB. If you want the easy way out just type the command: So the examples below are on the upstream version. 
However the upstream version is significantly up-to-date when compared with the version in the repositories. I am aware that youtube-dl is in the repositories. And then I met youtube-dl: the pedigree python based YouTube downloader. After I spend 10 minutes exploring the tree I could still not find the video file and fuming I decided to Google it. After a lot of digging I found that the new browser uses a per user cache which is in the ~/.firefox directory.
Imagine my shock when I visited YouTube using Firefox 4 for the first time and could not find anything in the /tmp folder. Playing the video is easy enough vlc plays pretty much any format from. All you had to do was wait for the buffering to complete, minimize the Firefox window, got to the /tmp directory and copy and paste the video into the folder of your choosing. One of the good things about the good old Firefox 3 was that when in Ubuntu flash videos were downloaded to the /tmp directory. Garikai started using Ubuntu Linux in 2007 and is an active member of the Zimbabwe Ubuntu LoCo team.
This article is part of a series of guest posts by Garikai Dzoma on helping new users migrate successfully to the Ubuntu operating system.
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