youtube-download command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

youtube-download: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: youtube-download: command not found

Solutions to youtube-download: command not found

How To Fix youtube-download: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu youtube-download is provided by libwww-youtube-download-perl package.

libwww-youtube-download-perl is:

WWW::YouTube::Download is a Perl module that provides a basic interface to YouTube’s video sharing service. It enables developers to programmatically retrieve information (titles and format information), and more importantly, to download arbitrary videos.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libwww-youtube-download-perl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libwww-youtube-download-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwww-youtube-download-perl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libwww-youtube-download-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix youtube-download command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.