sudo python setup.py install is broken on Linux

[lyda]

This bit of setup.py:

    params = {
        'data_files': [  # Installing system-wide would require sudo...
            ('etc/bash_completion.d', ['youtube-dl.bash-completion']),
            ('share/doc/youtube_dl', ['README.txt']),
            ('share/man/man1', ['youtube-dl.1'])
        ]
    }

should probably be:

    params = {
        'data_files': [  # Installing system-wide would require sudo...
            ('share/doc/youtube_dl', ['README.md']),
        ]
    }

[jaimeMF]

Without any output of running the command I guess you have the same problem as in #780, therefore I close it as a duplicate.
Downloading the source form pypi or from https://yt-dl.org and running the setup.py will work. The reason is that youtube-dl.bash-completion, README.txt and youtube-dl.1 are not included in the git repo, they are created when releasing new version and added to the source that it's distributed.
You can create them yourself, by running make youtube-dl.bash-completion youtube-dl.1 README.txt from the source directory, but you will need to have pandoc installed. Then running python setup.py will work.

[phihag]

This should now be fixed in the current git version, where we only emit a warning if the files are missing.