Download fails Error! Unhandled error (execa).

[coreybruce]

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Unable to download videos, Error! Unhandled error (execa). I am using the AUR package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/youtube-dl-gui

To Reproduce
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Tried to download any video

Expected behavior
Downloads video

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Additional info (please complete the following information):

• OS: Manjaro gnome
• Application version 2.4.0-2
• Application type AUR package

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[rulzAT]

For me this worked #354

[coreybruce]

For me this worked #354

I'm sorry but this doesn't help or apply to Linux users. only Mac and Windows user specifically.

[cappuccinocosmico]

Had this exact same error on manjaro, the fix for me was copying over a system binary of yt-dlp like so

sudo pacman -S yt-dlp

cp /bin/yt-dlp ~/.youtube-dl-gui/yt-dlp-unix

its a total stopgap but it works now at least.

[coreybruce]

Had this exact same error on manjaro, the fix for me was copying over a system binary of yt-dlp like so

sudo pacman -S yt-dlp

cp /bin/yt-dlp ~/.youtube-dl-gui/yt-dlp-unix

its a total stopgap but it works now at least.

Wow that does fix it but yeah is only a workaround so I hop they fix this weird issue

[olegshulyakov]

Duplicates #243

[rdayltx]

On Windows I fixed this, Downloading "youtube-dl.exe" from original repository, renaming to "yt-dlp.exe" and place in "open-video-downloader" folder. (I used portable version).

[hashblen]

I just used powershell -Command "Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe -OutFile %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\youtube-dl-gui\resources\app.asar.unpacked\binaries\yt-dlp.exe" to download it and put it in the right folder on windows. The same on linux, just donwload yt-dlp and put it in the binairies fodler.

[coreybruce]

But has it been fixed for Linux?

[hayguen]

looks, there are a bunch of duplicates for this issue, which all have same or similar workaround - just depending on operating system:
#387
#389
#390
#392
#413
#414
#418
#431

would be great to clean up the issue list! please close the listed issues above

i fear, that this project might got abandoned by the author, see #407
are there other persons with rights to close issues - except the individual issue submitters?

[hayguen]

Looks, the improved version 2.4.3 from https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui/releases does fix the issue.
Tested on Windows and WSL.
Thanks to @StefanLobbenmeier

[nleitao]

Had this exact same error on manjaro, the fix for me was copying over a system binary of yt-dlp like so

sudo pacman -S yt-dlp

cp /bin/yt-dlp ~/.youtube-dl-gui/yt-dlp-unix

its a total stopgap but it works now at least.

This worked for me! thanks @cappuccinocosmico