How do i install the yt-dlp tool? | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

noble spear Mar 7, 2026, 7:21 AM

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and how do i use it?

viral haven Mar 7, 2026, 7:48 AM

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Do you want a cli or a gui?
Also make sure you have the rights to that vid being downloaded, piracy is a big nono here

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And everywhere

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For a gui tool id give yt-downloader a try

rare gust Mar 7, 2026, 9:49 AM

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yt-dlp is lowkey easy enough i nthe terminal

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yt-dlp <link> downloads a video

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yt-dlp -x <link> extracts just the audio

viral haven Mar 7, 2026, 10:55 AM

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rare gust yt-dlp is lowkey easy enough i nthe terminal

Yea, but the gui tool i gave also has stupid easy settings, and has incredible metadata by default

noble spear Mar 7, 2026, 12:26 PM

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um

rare gust Mar 7, 2026, 12:38 PM

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probably you need to install more codecs and formats... not sure how to do that on linux mint, I use arch

viral haven Mar 7, 2026, 12:49 PM

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Theres an option to install multimedia codecs

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In the live environment

noble spear Mar 7, 2026, 12:55 PM

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viral haven Theres an option to install multimedia codecs

how?

viral haven Mar 7, 2026, 12:55 PM

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Its just a checkmark

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On the install screen

long raft Mar 7, 2026, 1:32 PM

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yt-dlp is already included in Mint, but it is an old version and doesn't work

viral haven Mar 7, 2026, 1:33 PM

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Have you tried the ytDownloader app in the software manager?

long raft Mar 7, 2026, 1:34 PM

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get the upstream version: wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_linux && chmod +x ./yt-dlp_linux

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move it to whatever folder you like (example moving to Downloads/Applications -> mkdir -p ~/Downloads/Applications/yt-dlp-latest && mv ./yt-dlp_linux ~/Downloads/Applications/yt-dlp-latest

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you can also do echo "alias yt-dlp-latest=/home/\$USER/Downloads/Applications/yt-dlp-latest/yt-dlp_linux -U" >> ~/.bash_aliases then use yt-dlp-latest instead of yt-dlp in the command line

#How do i install the yt-dlp tool?