youtube-dl fails on arch when installed from pacman #1325

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opened 2026-02-20 22:09:22 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments

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2026-02-20 22:09:22 -05:00

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Originally created by @phihag on GitHub (Oct 30, 2013).

Issue report from IRC:

youtube-dl's main (on current arch, installed with pacman) fails with

File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

Originally created by @phihag on GitHub (Oct 30, 2013). Issue report from IRC: [youtube-dl's main](http://pastebin.com/1tWZgvLF) (on current arch, installed with pacman) fails with ``` File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ImportError: No module named 'pkg_resources' ```

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2026-02-20 22:09:25 -05:00

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@diffycat commented on GitHub (Oct 30, 2013):

Fixed in youtube-dl-2013.10.30-1 (missing package dependency).
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37544?project=5

@diffycat commented on GitHub (Oct 30, 2013): Fixed in youtube-dl-2013.10.30-1 (missing package dependency). https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37544?project=5

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@chanibal commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015):

This issue has come back, and this time sudo pacman -Sy python-setuptools doesn't help.

@chanibal commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015): This issue has come back, and this time `sudo pacman -Sy python-setuptools` doesn't help.

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@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015):

@chanibal open a new issue, but note that if you are using the version provided by pacman you should first contact its maintainers to make sure it isn't a problem in their package (or check if you can reproduce it with the packages from https://yt-dl.org/ or the git repo).

@jaimeMF commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015): @chanibal open a new issue, but note that if you are using the version provided by pacman you should first contact its maintainers to make sure it isn't a problem in their package (or check if you can reproduce it with the packages from https://yt-dl.org/ or the git repo).

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@chanibal commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015):

@jaimeMF you're right, downloading from yt-dl.org worked. I'll add the issue to the arch guys.

@chanibal commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2015): @jaimeMF you're right, downloading from yt-dl.org worked. I'll add the issue to the arch guys.

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youku support improvement #1329

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