Supporting LTS systems

[johmanx10]

Dear team,

I use your youtube-dl on a CentOS 5 server and thus am stuck with Python 2.4
Your current version no longer works as it should with that version of Python, so I installed a parallel version of Python 2.6, since my OS heavily depends on 2.4. Now, however, I have to update the first line of the script after the shebang, replacing python with python26. This however disables the ability to automatically update youtube-dl. Do you see any option to pass along a parameter to the update flag so it knows to set a custom environment after the shebang? If not, that's fine with me, but it is nothing near impossible to pull that. If my Python was anything near I'd like it to be, I would've committed an update myself, for you to think about.

Cheers,

JM

[phihag]

While we don't officially support 2.4 and some extractors may fail because 2.4 misses some libraries, it should generally work.
If there is a bug with 2.4, feel free to file an issue for it, but make sure to include the information that you're using 2.4.

Modifying the shebang is of course possible, but you're probably better of by just aliasing youtube-dl to python2.6 youtube-dl. Alternatively, move youtube-dl to the subfolder ytdl-subfolder and create a script youtube-dl like this:

#!/bin/sh
python2.6 ytdl-subfolder/youtube-dl "$@"