• OT: deperate to download youtube video

    From santo@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 09:06:07 2020
    Hi all :-(
    I know it is off topic but I do not know where to turn...
    trying to download a spanish learning video using DownloadHelper...
    years ago was easy now I am told it need
    a companion app which I have downloaded:

    net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0-1_amd64.tar.gz

    but do not know what to do with it...

    I do not think the Downloads directory is
    the right place still I extracted it there
    as i do not know where is the right place...I get: Downloads/net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0
    Of course it does not work...When I try to download the video
    I again get the message that I need a companion app...
    I do not know what to do...any help or suddestion of another
    downloader which works with Mageia7.1 will be appreciated...
    TIA
    Santo

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 09:42:37 2020
    On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 08:06:07 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:
    Hi all :-(
    I know it is off topic but I do not know where to turn...
    trying to download a spanish learning video using DownloadHelper...
    years ago was easy now I am told it need
    a companion app which I have downloaded:

    net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0-1_amd64.tar.gz

    but do not know what to do with it...
    I do not think the Downloads directory is
    the right place still I extracted it there
    as i do not know where is the right place...

    Generally speaking, you unpack/extract the archive somewhere,
    do whatever required to create an executable, then place the executable
    in a directory that is in your $PATH.

    It depends on how the archive is set up.

    I usually unpack/extract in ~/tmp then move/install executable into /usr/local/bin.
    For examples, slrn and schily's cdrtools.
    $ type slrn
    slrn is /usr/local/bin/slrn
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/slrn
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 373K Dec 20 2019 /usr/local/bin/slrn

    whereas
    $ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 1 04:51 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord -> /opt/schily/bi

    Thunderbird and Firefox are different, I do the unpack in /local/opt
    then put links links in /usr/local/bin

    $ type thunderbird
    thunderbird is /usr/local/bin/thunderbird
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/thunderbird
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Jul 2 05:40 /usr/local/bin/thunderbird -> /local/opt/thunderbird-68.10.0/thunderbird


    I get:
    Downloads/net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0
    Of course it does not work...When I try to download the video
    I again get the message that I need a companion app...
    I do not know what to do...any help or suddestion of another
    downloader which works with Mageia7.1 will be appreciated...
    TIA
    Santo

    My suggestion would be to click on the
    Extra step required to complete install
    link and follow the instructions.

    https://www.downloadhelper.net/install-coapp#extra-targz64

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  • From santo@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 11:10:36 2020
    On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:42:37 -0500, Bit Twister wrote:

    On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 08:06:07 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:
    Hi all :-(

    Generally speaking, you unpack/extract the archive somewhere,
    do whatever required to create an executable, then place the executable
    in a directory that is in your $PATH.

    It depends on how the archive is set up.

    I usually unpack/extract in ~/tmp then move/install executable into /usr/local/bin.
    For examples, slrn and schily's cdrtools.
    $ type slrn
    slrn is /usr/local/bin/slrn
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/slrn
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 373K Dec 20 2019 /usr/local/bin/slrn

    ....
    hanks for all the explanation above...

    My suggestion would be to click on the
    Extra step required to complete install
    link and follow the instructions.

    I did click on the 'to complete the installation '
    link but thought that nothing was happening because
    the step to be followed were opening below the screen
    so I could not see them...
    now I paid a bit more attention and
    could complete everything...
    Thanks, now it works fine
    :-)

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 14:03:56 2020
    On 5/7/20 6:42 pm, Bit Twister wrote:


    whereas
    $ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord


    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    dir: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/cdrecord': No such file or directory

    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/bin/cdrecord

    have you moved yours around at some time, Bits ?

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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 16:25:07 2020
    On 05.07.2020 at 23:03, faeychild scribbled:

    On 5/7/20 6:42 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
    =20
    =20
    whereas
    $ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord =20
    =20
    =20
    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    dir: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/cdrecord': No such file or
    directory
    =20
    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/bin/cdrecord
    =20
    have you moved yours around at some time, Bits ?

    Educated guess: Yours is the cdrecord that comes installed in Mageia by
    default and is part of the cdrkit (formerly Wodim) package, whereas Bit Twister's is the cdrecord that comes as part of the original cdrtools
    package by J=C3=B6rg Schilling, which Bit Twister built from source code, because that is how Schilling distributes it.

    Software built from sources locally on the system is normally placed
    under /usr/local. Software distributed in binary form but installed
    outside of the scope of the package manager is generally installed in
    /opt. Software that comes as part of the system itself and/or that is installed using the system's package manager goes under /usr.



    --=20
    With respect,
    =3D Aragorn =3D


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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 18:54:21 2020
    On 2020-07-05, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> wrote:
    On 05.07.2020 at 23:03, faeychild scribbled:

    On 5/7/20 6:42 pm, Bit Twister wrote:


    whereas
    $ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    $ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord


    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
    dir: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/cdrecord': No such file or
    directory

    [faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ type cdrecord
    cdrecord is /usr/bin/cdrecord

    have you moved yours around at some time, Bits ?

    Educated guess: Yours is the cdrecord that comes installed in Mageia by default and is part of the cdrkit (formerly Wodim) package, whereas Bit Twister's is the cdrecord that comes as part of the original cdrtools
    package by Jörg Schilling, which Bit Twister built from source code,
    because that is how Schilling distributes it.

    Note that you can also get a compiled version of the real cdrecord
    (called cdrtools) from openmandriva

    cdrtools-3.02-5-omv4002.x86_64.rpm
    eg via
    https://pkgs.org/download/cdrecord
    And go down to OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 or OpenMadriva Cooker

    Note that because of the disappearance of cd/dvds the work on cdrecord
    has slowed down a lot. 3.02-5 is from 2015 while the latest on
    sourcforge is 2017.
    (Note that Schilling has always labeled his releases as "alpha" No idea
    why he uses this nomenclature to misleadingly call his releases, but
    they are not what everyone else would call an alpha version.



    Software built from sources locally on the system is normally placed
    under /usr/local. Software distributed in binary form but installed
    outside of the scope of the package manager is generally installed in
    /opt. Software that comes as part of the system itself and/or that is installed using the system's package manager goes under /usr.




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