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Running youtube-dl

I want to run youtube-dl but I have to install ffmpeg in Fedora.
What am I doing wrong, youtube-dl is installed.

root@fedora mickey]# dnf install ffmpeg
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:40 ago on Tue 28 Nov 2023 02:44:50 PM EST.
Error:
Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.2-3.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- package ffmpeg-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.4-1.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[root@fedora mickey]#

youtube-dl is unmaintained for a while. Does not work well. It's old. Switch to yt-dlp

Do you have some software built and installed not using your package manager?

Are you using an EOL version of Fedora, so that the repos are no longer maintained? Looks like Fedora is on version 39.

Is there different version of ffmpeg in Fedoras repos? You don't need ffmpeg v5 for yt-dlp.

Can't tell you much more from what you have posted.

You may wish to try yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl, which it replaced. Those conflicts don't show up when I try:

Code:

# dnf install yt-dlp-bash-completion yt-dlp

Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:00 ago on Tue 28 Nov 2023 05:49:56 PM EST.

Dependencies resolved.

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 Package                              Architecture        Version                            Repository            Size

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Installing:

 yt-dlp-bash-completion              noarch              2023.10.07-1.fc37                  updates                12 k

Installing dependencies:

 libtomcrypt                          x86_64              1.18.2-15.fc37                    fedora                388 k

 libtommath                          x86_64              1.2.0-11.fc37                      updates                63 k

 python3-brotli                      x86_64              1.0.9-9.fc37                      fedora                319 k

 python3-certifi                      noarch              2021.10.8-3.fc37                  fedora                16 k

 python3-mutagen                      noarch              1.45.1-8.fc37                      fedora                504 k

 python3-pycryptodomex                x86_64              3.19.0-1.fc37                      updates              1.3 M

 python3-websockets                  x86_64              10.3-3.fc37                        fedora                195 k

 yt-dlp                              noarch              2023.10.07-1.fc37                  updates              5.7 M



Transaction Summary

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Install  9 Packages



Total download size: 8.4 M

Installed size: 29 M

Is this ok [y/N]:

Thanks guys for your help, I downloaded a 8.0GiB file of Flute Listening Music.
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HL0K70h93U 11 Hrs. of playing, And played it VLC but had small pauses in Music of about 2 seconds while playing.
Thanks again for your help.