/usr/bin/youtube-dl: 1: Syntax error: newline unexpected

[vandana-iyer]

Upgraded youtube-dl using the command sudo youtube-dl -U. It got updated to version 9999.99.99.
When I try to download videos, I keep getting the error:
/usr/bin/youtube-dl: 1: Syntax error: newline unexpected
After the upgrade, "sudo youtube-dl -U" too throws the same error.

[phihag]

Which Python version are you using? The version 9999.99.99 is just a placeholder; we have switched to a new update system.

[vandana-iyer]

Python version is 2.7.2, on ubuntu 11.10.

[phihag]

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce it. In the meantime, you can execute

sudo wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.01.11/youtube-dl -O /usr/bin/youtube-dl

to get back a working youtube-dl. Sorry for the problems.

[phihag]

We didn't define a tag for the latest version we specified. Fixed now - updates from a plain Ubuntu 11.10 will now download the intermediate version that supports the new update system. Thank you very much for reporting!

I'm closing this issue now, but feel free to comment if it hasn't been solved for you.

[vandana-iyer]

In the meantime I had upgraded to python3, uninstalled youtube-dl and installed again.
Updated youtube-dl now and it works. Thank you for the quick fix. I really appreciate it.