Running --version takes 10 seconds!

[Dingo64]

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I just installed youtube-dl using:

curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

I have python3 and Debian 8 ARMhf. Running
youtube-dl --version
takes 10 seconds just to show
2018.01.07
Something is seriously wrong.

[Dingo64]

I am sorry but if this is a duplicate then where is the original issue?

[sleske]

Maybe @dstftw had this in mind:
issue #3029 - Slow on Raspberry Pi

[Dingo64]

Thanks you very much, @sleske.