Do you have youtube-dl installed? Try typing youtube-dl from the command line. If you get an error then you need to install it and put it in /usr/bin wget https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2012.09.27/youtube-dl Then install it as per the instructions on page 1: sudo chmod a+x youtube-dl sudo cp ...

I'm also new to Make. I found this very basic tutorial helpful: http://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/courses ... maketutor/

I'm sure there are much better ones out there! I just happened to need this yesterday and it came up pretty early in my google search.
HTH!

So I've been mostly responding to myself But I found the problem. My version of youtube-dl was wrong. Don't use the version mentioned in the post with the latest version of Raspian. Use this one instead: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2 ... youtube-dl

Can someone help another noob? I followed the guide and have everything needed installed now. I have tried opening yt in X using lxterminal and no luck. It appears to work and talks to youtube and pulls a list of video's however when I select say #6 it shows playing http:\\youtub.com\andabunchofstu...

This is a nice howto. However, can't seem to get anything playing. No matter what number I pick, a small dialog comes up and tells me 'Playing https://blahblahblah', but then goes away after a few seconds. Where's the video? I've even tried playing small videos like searching for 'nyan cat' like on...

This is a nice howto. However, can't seem to get anything playing. No matter what number I pick, a small dialog comes up and tells me 'Playing https://blahblahblah', but then goes away after a few seconds. Where's the video? I've even tried playing small videos like searching for 'nyan cat' like one...