Issue running youtube-dl on centos

[nblx2k4]

Hey--

after following the install steps on http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html, I've got this issue on my centos linux vps.

Error details:

[root@uhndjwwk tmp]# sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.02.02/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
--01:06:39-- http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.02.02/youtube-dl
Resolving youtube-dl.org... 95.143.172.170, 2001:1a50:11:0:5f:8f:acaa:177
Connecting to youtube-dl.org|95.143.172.170|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 58757 (57K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl'

100%[=======================================>] 58,757 276K/s in 0.2s

01:06:39 (276 KB/s) - `/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl' saved [58757/58757]

[root@uhndjwwk tmp]# sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
[root@uhndjwwk tmp]# youtube-dl -o "/tmp/%(id)s%.%(ext)s%" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzL417Qm7E
sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xba' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Thanks,

[phihag]

It looks your version of Python is outdated. What output do you get for python --version?

youtube-dl requires Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 or newer. Is there any way that you can install a somewhat recent Python? If so, you could try the following (say, if you've got Python 2.6 installed):

sudo mv /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl /usr/local/bin/_youtube-dl.real
/bin/echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec python2.6 /usr/local/bin/_youtube-dl.real "$@"' | \
  sudo tee /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl >/dev/null
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

That will create a helper script which launches youtube-dl with Python 2.6.

[nblx2k4]

Hey Phil--

I had no time to figure out the issue, however I could run it on a ubuntu VPS. Thanks for your reply!