Installed youtube downloader on my wife's computer and it didn't work. It worked fine on my computer.
Launching it from a command prompt I got the error "No wx module". The wx libraries are installed, then I realized my system has a full set of development tools for python so I installed the WX python modules and now its working fine on her system.
The solution was also in this thread:
which I found when starting this thread. In terms of an installation in the Software Boutique not working I think it needs to be fixed as the Boutique is supposed to be for beginners and "well curated".
I also had this problem. I used a âfixâ suggested in a previous post which updated youtube-dl via a ppa but failed to fix the gui version which is good in the sense that the standard version of youtube-dl quickly goes out of date and now because of the ppa will update to the newest version more quickly.
I donât know if Wimpy has done the update or if subsequent updates came from this repo, i.e., ones relating to youtube-dl-gui or from the main repo but they had no effect on the gui version.
If youtube-dl-gui is started from the terminal it gives this response:
No module named wx
This (wx) is not present in my kernel (4.4.0-36-generic). Do I need to upgrade my kernel?
Doing a dist-upgrade my have other, unwanted, effects. Running a simulation saw things like elements of Unity lurking in the wings waiting to pounce.
I looked in synaptic for âpython wxâ and got quite few results but not sure if they are all relevant. Here is a similar search with apt-cache:
~$ apt-cache search python-wx
python-wxgtk-media3.0 - Python interface to the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wx.media)
python-wxgtk3.0 - Python interface to the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
python-wxmpl - Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython
python-wxtools - Tools from the wxPython distribution
python-wxversion - API for selecting the wxPython version to use
python-wxgtk3.0-dev - Development files for wxPython
python-wxgtk2.8 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding)
python-wxgtk2.8-dbg - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding, debug version)
I might be missing something here but I donât see any labeled as modules or even libraries. I do see the need to choose the right python version. Would one key python package pull in the rest of the dependencies where youtube-dl-gui did not?
Oops,
now have read the thread you highlighted above wally333. I followed these instructions and now youtube-dlg works but not, it seems, youtube-gui unless they are the same thing. I did update it as per instructions. I also seem to have an awful lot of python installed.
I had missed the âpython-wxgtk-media3.0â so I installed that too. Exactly how much python you need to make it work Iâm still not sure about but at least it does now work!
Probably the biggest advantage of this exercise is that I now get an updateble youtube-dl which is what I was looking for before the shinny gui thing caught my eye.
I donât know if itâs related, but Minecraft wonât install either. It fails when installed via the Software Boutique, even though I have the latest updates.
