Hi,

I am a beginner in using linux.
I am using tails with a usb drive.

Setups are by default.
I just have activate Persistence on every data.

I have downloaded and installed youtube-dl with the synaptic package manager.

In the terminal, I can have : youtube-dl --help
It appears fine.

But if I want to download a video and write : youtube-dl URL
I have this message :
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable> (caused by URLError(OSError(101, 'Network is unreachable')))

I have tried with several videos, always on youtube.

Does anyone here use youtube-dl with tails ?

Don't.
That version is hopelessly outdated.
Uninstall it, then download this to your $HOME/bin/ directory.
Try it with
note the ./ at the beginning.

If that works, we will adjust your PATH so you can drop the "./".

Subsequently, you can update youtube-dl with the "-U" option. Do it often.

Yes, I agree, you need to use the latest (and uptodate) version of youtube-dl.
But anyway, if your network would be really unreachable you need to fix it first.

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt answers !

I am really a beginner, so I am sorry to ask again some basics questions...

Even if I have alreary done some tutorials about line commands, I do not understand enough to see what I did wrong.

I deleted the youtube-dl package in the synaptic package manager.
Then, I downloaded the youtube-dl file with the link you gave me.
The file is now in home/Tor\ Browser/

I tried the command you gave me, and tried some other things. But nothing worked

Here is what I tried :


amnesia@amnesia:~$ cd ~/bin; ./youtube-dl URL
bash: cd: /home/amnesia/bin: No such file or directory
bash: ./youtube-dl: No such file or directory
amnesia@amnesia:~$ cd Tor\ Browser/
amnesia@amnesia:~/Tor Browser$ ./youtube-dl URL
bash: ./youtube-dl: Permission denied
amnesia@amnesia:~/Tor Browser$ sudo ./youtube-dl URL
[sudo] password for amnesia:
sudo: ./youtube-dl: command not found
amnesia@amnesia:~$ ./youtube-dl https://github-releases.githubusercontent.com
bash: ./youtube-dl: No such file or directory
amnesia@amnesia:~/Tor Browser$ ./youtube-dl https://github-releases.githubusercontent.com
bash: ./youtube-dl: Permission denied
amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo ./youtube-dl https://github-releases.githubusercontent.com
[sudo] password for amnesia:
sudo: ./youtube-dl: command not found
amnesia@amnesia:~/Tor Browser$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for amnesia:
Hit:1 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:3 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:4 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:5 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Hit:6 tor+http://umjqavufhoix3smyq6az2sx4istmu...joo6l2qd.onion 4.19 InRelease
Hit:7 tor+http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

The message seems pretty clear: Network in unreachable.

I expect Tails deliberately blocks all standard network traffic, and you need to specifically instruct applications to go through TOR.

With youtube-dl that would presumably be via its documented proxy functionality, and/or via torsocks.