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Having difficult time using or downloading videos from Youtube it keeps saying 

bash: /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl: Permission denied

I don't even know if I installed it correctly. My OS is Ubuntu 15.10 64.

David Foerster
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It's possible the executable does not have the correct permissions.

For it to be in /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl, you probably ran it with a sudo make install or similar. it's in there as root:root which is fine, but it's not going to work right.

Let's set the executable bit: sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Then try and use youtube-dl.

Thomas Ward
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Try to install it via pip3

At first intall python3-pip python-pip

 sudo apt-get install python3-pip python-pip

then

 sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl
kenn
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