Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?
On 12/11/20 3:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I use "youtube-dl" from the command line, it gives you a
lot of
control over exactly what formats you want. "youtube-dl -F url" will
give you the list of available formats and then you can use
"youtube-dl -f {n} url" to get it. See the man page for details.
Btw, even though it's called "youtube"-dl, it can download from many
other sites as well.
I use both 4kVideoDownloader and youtube-dl because neither of them
handles all videos.
Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult:
1) Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package:
sudo alien --to-rpm --scripts 4kvideodownloader_4.13.5-1_amd64.deb
2) Fix the rpm package so that it doesn't try to "own" the "/usr"
and
"/usr/bin" directories.
rpmrebuild --edit-spec 4kvideodownloader-4.13-6.x86_64.rpm
When the VI editor session opens, scroll down to the "%files" section of
the file and delete the first eight lines:
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/lib"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/lib/.build-id"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/lib/.build-id/a4"
%attr(0777, root, root)
"/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/0b64ce7d0c022c77cd85ad6f405b529dc8004c"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/lib/.build-id/f7"
%attr(0777, root, root)
"/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/997df8fab1b5db8950848b227407154e389688"
Save the file and let the rebuild complete.
3) Insrall the rpm package using dnf as usual:
sudo dnf install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/4kvideodownloader-4.13-6.x86_64.rpm
--
David King
dave at daveking dot com