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Jackie Snape
Jackie Snape asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

How can I get a Youtube downloader that will work with Linux software?

I have been trying many, many sites in search of a Youtube downloader. Nothing I've tried works with my Ubuntu Linux software. And Pytube, which is supposed to be for Linux, is nowhere to be found. I don't know a lot about the inner workings of files on computers, and I just want to download the software then use it. Please help?

Update:

I'm trying to downloa.d videos so I can put it on a mp3 player. The player won't support flash, so I can't watch videos straight from Youtube

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  • catmandew
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I don't know much about Linux, but it looks like there is a version of Firefox browser for it? If so, you can use an add-on called Video DownloadHelper. Works pretty good for me on Windows.

    http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/300...

    Source(s): My dial up is too slow to watch them streaming.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i want to recommend you have a trial of Video Download Studio.

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    Provides popular out video formats including AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, MKV, SWF, FLV and popular audio formats including MP3, M4A, OGG, WAVE, WMA. Supports video trimming to convert any part you need of the original videos.

    Do not hesitate, come and get one for free. You will love it after you try it.

    http://www.downloadvideos-convert.com/download-vid...

    hope it can help you more or less!

  • Marko S
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    DownloadHelper addon for Mozilla Firefox browser.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You can try Leawo Free YouTube Downloader -

    http://www.leawo.com/youtube-download/

    It is a good video downloader.

    And this tutoiral shows how to rip audio from YouTube videos - http://www.leawo.com/flash/rip-music-youtube.html

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  • Toby
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You know that you can get flash on Ubuntu, right?

    "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" (without quotes, of course) will install Flash and all kinds of other goodies as well.

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