couldn't install in ubuntu 20.04

Bug report

cant install youtube-dl-gui in ubuntu 20.04. there is a dependency issue of twodict. i tried installing with pip and using source compilation. both failed.

What operating system do you use ?

Ubuntu 20.04

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. … install package using pip or setup.py

What is the expected behaviour ?

install correctly

What happens instead ?

showing dependency error and python2 print error

pip3 install youtube-dlg
Collecting youtube-dlg
  Downloading Youtube-DLG-0.4.tar.gz (153 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 153 kB 145 kB/s 
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/pip-egg-info                                                                                                                                       
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/                                                                                                                                           
    Complete output (8 lines):                                                                                                                                                                 
    Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                         
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                                                                     
      File "/tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/setup.py", line 69, in <module>                                                                                                              
        from youtube_dl_gui import (                                                                                                                                                           
      File "/tmp/pip-install-l3anp9ah/youtube-dlg/youtube_dl_gui/__init__.py", line 25                                                                                                         
        print error                                                                                                                                                                            
              ^                                                                                                                                                                                
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(error)?  
                                                                                                         
    ----------------------------------------                                                                                                                                                   
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

when installing through setup.py i get No module named twodict and cant able to install twodic for python2 in ubuntu 20.04

[christopher-kleine]

@ajithrn tbh: The devs should drop Python 2. Period. Python 2 reached End Of Life (EOL) And I don’t care what it is, once it reached EOL, it has to be upgraded or one has to pay for further support. That applies at least to the professional world. Windows 7? People loved it. But it reached EOL and had to be replaced. Is everyone happy with it? No, of course not. Will everyone switch to Windows 10? No, of course not. But they have nobody to blame, if someone uses an exploit for Win7 and harms their IT.

Look at other active maintained Open Source Projects like WordPress. I quote from their website:

We recommend servers running version 7.3 or greater of PHP and MySQL version 5.6 OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater. 

Meaning PHP 7.2 or even below that is no longer supported (or at least not recommended). And according to the (Supported Versions of PHP](https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php) PHP 7.2 is still maintained - even if only for security fixes.

I checked Drupal as well. They too recommend PHP 7.3+ and anything below is not recommended or simply doesn’t work anymore.

I happen to work in the IT and we have customers with an old version of WordPress with an even older version of PHP (5.6 i.e.). They have to pay their hoster for this.

And I’m pretty sure, most other Python 2 projects moved on as well. BTW: If you looked at #444 you’ll notice that this very project is not maintained anymore. So move on and simply ditch it.

I don’t have the time, money nor the required patience to deal with dead projects. I’d rather stick to https://github.com/axcore/tartube and be done with it. It looks better in any way, it uses Python 3, manages your Downloads and if you don’t want it to do that, you can still use the old style since even this is implemented.

So … why should I fight with an inferior project?

[aindriu80]

Did they abandon youtube-dl-gui ? I can’t get it installed on Ubuntu 20.04

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/pip-egg-info cwd: /tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/ Complete output (8 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/setup.py", line 69, in <module> from youtube_dl_gui import ( File "/tmp/pip-install-n6mrmavu/youtube-dlg/youtube_dl_gui/__init__.py", line 25 print error ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(error)? ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.