Tube is a web-based frontend for YouTube-dl, a command-line video downloading utility. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Tube on Fedora Server Latest.
Before you install Tube, you need to install its required dependencies. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo dnf install git python3-pip ffmpeg
git
is used to clone the Tube repository.python3-pip
is the Python package installer, used to install Python dependencies.ffmpeg
is a multimedia framework that Tube requires to download, convert, and process video/audio files.Next, you need to clone the Tube repository from Git. Run the following command:
git clone https://git.mills.io/prologic/tube.git
This will clone the Tube project into a directory called tube
.
After cloning the Tube repository, navigate to the cloned directory by running the following command:
cd tube
Then, install the Python dependencies by running the following command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
This will install all the Python modules required for Tube to work.
Before running Tube, you need to configure it by creating a config.json
file. This file contains information such as the YouTube API key, the directory to save downloaded videos, and other settings.
To create a config.json
file, run the following command:
cp config.example.json config.json
Then, open the config.json
file with a text editor and modify its values to suit your preferences.
After configuring Tube, you can run it by executing the following command:
python3 app.py
This will start the Tube web interface, and you can open it in your web browser by visiting http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5000
.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Tube on Fedora Server Latest. With Tube, you can easily download and manage YouTube videos from a web-based interface. Happy downloading!
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