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how to have youtube-videos from the videos lens open in minitube

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http://askubuntu.com – Since the standard installed video-lens in 12.04 also covers youtube, the youtube-lens seems obsolete. However, the programme that connects the youtube lens with minitube (scope-youtube) doesn't seem to connect the videos lens and minitube. Is there any way to have those videos not opened in my browser but in Minitube? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/18/2012

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Minitube, an application that aims to provide a completely different YouTube experience, has just reached version 2.0.

Minitube 2.0 will allow users to find missing parts of a multipart video, sort videos by relevance, date, view count and rating, filter videos by publication date, video duration and video quality, and much more.

Highlights of Minitube 2.0:

• YouTube categories and “

Minitube has been working great for a lot of the youtube links, but for videos that require confirmation that you're older than 18, they don't work. Is there something I can do about this?

Or if there's a better way to download the videos do tell.

There are two simple way to download a YouTube video in Ubuntu / Linux Mint – using a desktop application (gui based or a terminal utility) or using a plugin – in your favorite browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

I was trying to installing YouTube lens and scope from Ubuntu.

I typed the following in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lens-video scope-youtube

The output is:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package lens-video

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