Customizing YouTube-DL installation (QNAP - Linux)

[level42ca]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.08.09
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I've been trying to install YouTube-DL to run from my QNAP, and I've been successful at doing so despite my limited Linux knowledge. However, it seems that where YouTube-DL gets isntalled to by default, with regards to QNAP specifically, wont work. As common directories such as /root/ and /usr/local/bin get reset whenever the system reboots.

My question is, is there a way for us to customize the installation location, and the default paths for things like config, youtube-dl.conf, and .netrc among other things?

I'd wager that this is quite possible, but ideally, I'd like to stray as far away from modifying youtube-dl source as possible, to prevent having to redo changes each time youtube-dl is updated. Would be nice if there was a youtube-dl config file that would house these paths and defaults, that would simply be located parallel to the executable.

Just my thoughts/questions. Thanks!

[dstftw]

You can install it where ever you want. You can't customize config locations other that default. Same for .netrc. You can specify config location from command line --config-location.