Python not found

[jacobacci]

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Please bear with me, if I am not filing this bug report correctly. I am an Ubuntu noob.

I have done a clean install of 18.04 LTS. I then installed youtube-dl using

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

When I try to use youtube-dl, I get the following error message:

rudolffischer@HP8770w:~$ youtube-dl -U
/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

Python 3 seems to be installed

rudolffischer@HP8770w:~$ python3
Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

I thought youtube-dl is supposed to run with Python3.2+.
Thanks for any help.
Rudi

[Hrxn]

What happens if you try which python?

(And also which python3 for completeness)

[jacobacci]

Hi, Thanks for the quick response. I tried installing Python 2.7 and lo and behold, youtube-dl works. The installed Python3 Version is listed in my post. Should I try other Python 3.x versions as well? From: HRXN [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Sunday, 20. May 2018 09:44 To: rg3/youtube-dl Cc: jacobacci; Author Subject: Re: [rg3/youtube-dl] Python not found (#16503) What happens if you try which python? (And also which python3 for completeness) — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16503 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJpUkajHs8bXPxI8cyWWNNzVOwd74Qr5ks5t0R7YgaJpZM4UF_Og> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AJpUkaY_QPBp_2TFnETUdz6m_1tQk7h9ks5t0R7YgaJpZM4UF_Og.gif>

[dstftw]

Obviously your python configuration is broken. Nothing to do with youtube-dl.

[jacobacci]

Thanks for the feedback, although I don’t think the python configuration is broken after a clean install. <nonsense removed> Rudi From: Sergey M. [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Sunday, 20. May 2018 17:08 To: rg3/youtube-dl Cc: jacobacci; Author Subject: Re: [rg3/youtube-dl] Python not found (#16503) Obviously your python configuration is broken. Nothing to do with youtube-dl. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16503 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJpUkcdcUNscOJwivQt3tuE0XPSsG_x2ks5t0Ya5gaJpZM4UF_Og> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AJpUkUkcw79HgK80dG90DIes98SBo1jTks5t0Ya5gaJpZM4UF_Og.gif>

[dstftw]

Again: your configuration is broken. Python must be available as python that is defined in __main__.py's shebang. This does not work on your setup.