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This is my second attempt to migrate to Ubuntu 22.04. Everything is fine, but I am missing a tool for downloading videos from the internet.

I am looking for an app with a graphical user interface that allows me to download videos from websites.

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  • in firefox click on the hamburger meny upper right corner,click on addons and search for vdeo downloader and simply add it to firefox.you will now have an icon on the top of your screen where you can select the video you want to download.it is as simple as that no terminal needed to do this. – trond hansen May 25 '22 at 03:31
  • I've added some further clarification to the question and requested it be re-opened as it is entirely valid and the answer provided by @kanehekili is equally valid. – graham Jun 07 '22 at 15:02
  • What tool and in what OS are you trying to replace? – pbhj Nov 24 '23 at 17:05

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If you want to download videos with Ubuntu, you might take my downloader into consideration. It has been developed for Linux with the very simple interface.

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The tool can be downloaded and installed with one command.

Or using my ppa. Setup:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jentiger-moratai/mediatools
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ytdownloader
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  • Thanks for the info – mohsinjiwa May 26 '22 at 05:59
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    @26401 "The one command" refers to the download. You do not need that command if you install my repository as explained in the answer – kanehekili May 27 '22 at 08:35
  • just used your download tool on my new instance of 22.04 after following your installation instructions and it works perfectly - thank you. I've requested the question be re-opened since your answer achieves what the OP has requested. – graham Jun 07 '22 at 14:57
  • added to my previous comment, features I like particularly are the ability to build a list of URLs for download in one hit and the ability to change the download directory. An easy application for a novice user. – graham Jun 08 '22 at 17:23
  • @kanehekili after downloading the .tar file and following your instructions to extract it sudo ./install.sh I see no launcher for the program in the ytdownloader folder. How do I actually run it from there? – graham Mar 06 '24 at 10:54
  • There should be a launcher deployed in /usr/share/applications: YtGui.desktop. Go to "activities" and enter "yt" - the launcher should be there – kanehekili Mar 06 '24 at 14:16
  • Nope, don't see that in /usr/share/applications There is another alternative - I could add the repo manually just need the name of the repository I want to add in the format (eg) deb http://packages.domain.com/ bookworm main – graham Mar 06 '24 at 16:05
  • bullseye: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jentiger-moratai/mediatools/ubuntu jammy main.. You might replace jammy with "kinetic". But the tar.gz includes the desktop file.. What happens if you start YtGui from commandline? – kanehekili Mar 07 '24 at 11:46
  • @kanehekili command not found. Don't worry about it. I'm going to spin up a version of Debian 12 and see what happens there. I l know it works on Ubuntu because I already installed it there. Thanks for the responses anyway – graham Mar 07 '24 at 12:46
  • The deb version will install its own yt-dlp version, so it should not be installed via apt. But I still don't understand why the install.sh didn't work. That is distro agnostic... – kanehekili Mar 07 '24 at 22:37