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Installation error

See original GitHub issue

When trying to install, I get this error:

kot@192:~$ pip install youtube-dlg
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting youtube-dlg
  Downloading Youtube-DLG-0.4.tar.gz (153 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 153 kB 2.4 MB/s 
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3.8 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-uigeedb4/youtube-dlg/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-uigeedb4/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-pip-egg-info-ehhjazge
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-uigeedb4/youtube-dlg/
    Complete output (8 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-uigeedb4/youtube-dlg/setup.py", line 69, in <module>
        from youtube_dl_gui import (
      File "/tmp/pip-install-uigeedb4/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.

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axcorecommented, Mar 1, 2021

Most Linux distributions provide Python 2. For example, on Debian and Ubuntu python 2 is by default!

I meant to write: “Most Linux distributions no longer provide Python 2 support”, which means that software written in python 2 is no longer available in software repositories.

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axcorecommented, Feb 28, 2021

This project is abandoned, and cannot easily be installed on modern Linux distributions. Try this fork or this one.

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