How To Install gydl on Fedora 34

gydl is GUI wrapper around youtube-dl program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gydl on Fedora 34.

What is gydl

Gydl (Graphical Youtube-dl) is a GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program. It’s developed with a dialog driven experience in mind. This provides a quick and easy video or audio downloads without disturbances.

We can use yum or dnf to install gydl on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gydl.

Install gydl on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gydl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gydl

Install gydl on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gydl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gydl

How To Uninstall gydl on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gydl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gydl

gydl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gydl.py
/usr/share/applications/com.github.JannikHv.Gydl.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gydl
/usr/share/doc/gydl/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gydl.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gydl
/usr/share/licenses/gydl/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/Gydl.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.JannikHv.Gydl.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gydl on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.