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I have a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 and have noticed that Youtube runs pretty slowly on it. I decided to try installing Minitube, but it said that it couldn't download "gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/..." I tried to install smtube, but it simply said that it couldn't connect to Youtube. I thought this was pretty weird because I had Youtube open in Firefox directly in the background. smtube failure with youtube working in the background

The contents of my hosts file follow:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.1.1   RaspberryPi

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Is there any reason for Firefox to work, but not smtube or minitube?

Nonny Moose
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    I remember YouTube saying that its API had been updated, meaning older clients, such as those on iOS 5, would no longer work. Is it possible that these clients haven't been updated? – TheWanderer Jan 16 '16 at 19:49
  • @Zacharee1 Good point. Minitube is 0.3 versions behind in the packages repository and smtube is 2 versions behind. One version ago smtube was completely rewritten. I will see if it works using the current version. – Nonny Moose Jan 18 '16 at 15:00
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    @Zacharee1 The new versions are not built for my processor and have errors when building... :( – Nonny Moose Jan 28 '16 at 13:58
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    then I don't think you can use them :/ – TheWanderer Jan 28 '16 at 14:24
  • @Zacharee1 Then I won't! ;) – Nonny Moose May 26 '16 at 22:39

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I have found the solution, at least for me:
I only wanted a youtube client. mps-youtube works quite well for me.

Nonny Moose
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Got it working by using the following commands:

sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install smtube smplayer

In smtube, select the the dl program.

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