youtube-dl.bash-completion doesn't exist or not a regular file

[hernantz]

Running sudo python setup.py install directly or pip install <yotube-dl github repo.zip> raises an error:

can't copy 'youtube-dl.bash-completion': doesn't exist or not a regular file.

Looking around setup.py (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/setup.py#L43) seems that the file does not exist actually.
Python version: 2.7.3

[jaimeMF]

Have you try downloading from: http://youtube-dl.org the youtube-dl-{the_version}.tar.gz? It includes the youtube-dl.bash-completion script and the man pages. It should also work by doing pip install youtube_dl.
They are not in the git repo because they are generated with the makefile.

[hernantz]

On Mon 18 Mar 2013 10:26:45 AM ART, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz wrote:

Have you try downloading from: http://youtube-dl.org the
|youtube-dl-{the_version}.tar.gz|? It includes the
|youtube-dl.bash-completion| script and the man pages. It should also
work by doing |pip install youtube_dl|.
They are not in the git repo because they are generated with the makefile.

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It worked, thanks.

[FiloSottile]

If you want to install from the source, you have to make before, as @jaimeMF noted.
Happy downloading!