debian 13.0, downloaded yt-dlp with wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp
the python script is in that directory, but if I execute yt-dlp on the terminal it returns bash: yt-dlp: command not found
what should I do?
SOLVED: add .local/bin to your $PATH
what you should do: delete that file and then listen to onlooker’s advice about using apt to install software when you can
what is happening: an arbitrary file you create to hold the contents of some data you streamed off the internet, for very good reason, is not automatically treated as an executable, partly because for all wget knows, it’s just a photograph or some text. to mark a file as executable, you need to run
chmod +x /path/to/script/fileto add to the file’s permissions. to learn more, and you should, please learn about file permissions and how those work on linux systems.