How to replace yt-dlp in extra with AUR, and get audiotube using it?

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Hi Manjaro, since a few days audiotube (I’m on KDE) fails to play youtube music library songs.

I suspect something changed youtube side, and it may be addressed by the latest yt-dlp mightly build, available in AUR.

I installed AUR yt-dlp-nightly-bin 2026.08.18.122307 via pacman. The “extra repository” version was removed and yt-dlp reinstalled.

From shell prompt yt-dlp --version says 2026.08.18.122307

Ths issue is that if I launch audiotube (from shell prompt) I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘yt_dlp’

I’m looking for guidance where to look. Basically I’d like to try to use audiotube, forcing it to use the latest yt-dlp version

Thanks!

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:wink: :magnifying_glass_tilted_right:

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I think the reason for this is that audiotube uses the python module under /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/yt_dlp/. The yt-dlp-nightly-bin however, as the name suggests, installs only the executable yt-dlp to /usr/bin. If this should be right, then there is no fix for it. This is actually an error in the yt-dlp-nightly-bin in that it claims to provide yt-dlp such that the audiotube package thinks its dependencies would be fulfilled but actually they are not.

Since you want to use yt-dlp together with audiotube, the solution of the related thread won’t work for you. However, you could perhaps install yt-dlp from the unstable branch. (Remove the AUR package first.)

sudo pacman -U https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/manjaro/unstable/extra/x86_64/yt-dlp-2026.08.19-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Don’t know whether this works because of dependencies but you can try.

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Thx for the explanation! I reverted to the yt-dlp in the extra repository. I’m now trying ytDownloader as alternative (thx Manjaro for the hint! ;-), until yt-dlp gets updated either in Manjaro extra or in AUR. I can report here that ytDownloader sort of works, but I had to change my VPN location. Audiotube instead, even with the new location, still does not work. I do not think I’ll use ytDownloader as standard for me, I do not want to download, just stream …

Thx @Jofi! I just tried the pacman -U, now audiotube works again :smiley:

Mod edit: Consecutive posts merged, @mention added..