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  1. 07-16-2009 #1
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    Being brand new to linux......I was wondering is someone could point me to a program that would make downloading youtube videos possible...I am not sure about using a commandline....a GU would be better......I am running Xubuntu .......Thank you for any help

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    Quote Originally Posted by aperla View Post
    Being brand new to linux......I was wondering is someone could point me to a program that would make downloading youtube videos possible...I am not sure about using a commandline....a GU would be better......I am running Xubuntu .......Thank you for any help

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    Well I don't know of any on GUI applications off the top of my head, but there is a nice command line one called clive. Install it with:
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    sudo apt-get install clive
    To use it, all you have to do is copy the url of the youtube video, and paste it in like:
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    clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQG-DZy7uY
    Make sure to get rid of anything past the video identifier (v=XXXX...), which I believe will be separated by an ampersand which causes some unwanted crap to happen.
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    There is a very easy to use Firefox add-on, Video Downloadhelper.
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    Talking Downloader for YouTube Videos

    L4Linux and egan..thank you for replying so quickly.....Egan...I was a little intimidated by the command line...well...mainly because I really don't know how to do it.....the idea of having a downloader.....addon in firefox seemed easy to do....so I did that....it was installed quickly and easily.....and I downloaded my own video from you tube......

    Thank you both....so far all my attempts with linux and xubuntu has been very satisfying.....perhaps when I get enough courage .....I will try command line...

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    I use the flashgot plugin for firefox.
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