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# INSTALLATION | |||
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To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type: | |||
To install it right away for all UNIX users (Windows,Linux, macOS, etc.), type: |
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Would have to be:
To install it right away for all UNIX users (Windows,Linux, macOS, etc.), type: | |
To install it right away for all users (Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.), type: |
Feel free to complete the description in the PR template. The proposed change would only be valid if there was a sudo program in Windows, which there certainly wasn't when the text was written and AFAIK this is still true. There is now a usable Windows Subsystem for Linux with a sudo command. If you can demonstrate installing yt-dl release in WSL using the procedure laid out for Unixes, we might consider something like this: To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
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
-Windows users can download an .exe file and place it in any location on their PATH except for %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 (e.g. do not put in C:\Windows\System32).
+You can also use this procedure in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Otherwise Windows users can download an .exe file and place it in any location on their PATH except for %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 (e.g. do not put in C:\Windows\System32). My guess is that the WSL installation procedure doesn't put the program on the |
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NEVER DO THAT ! |
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