How To: Download YouTube Videos for Ubuntu
July 4th, 2008 — 1:52pm
In Windows, my buddy Joel had shown me that Real Player (I know, bear with me) creates a plugin that allows you to directly download flash videos to your computer. So the adventure began to do the same in Ubuntu. READY!? WAIT FOR IT! WAIT FOR IT!
There is some software/firefox plugins to do this but for me, I prefer the simplest solution which is:
Navigate to >Places >Computer >Filesystem >tmp
When the youtube video you have in your browser is fully downloaded, you can simply drag and drop from tmp onto your desktop, or anywhere else you might like to put it.
Seriously, that’s it. Thanks to the Ubuntu Forums for coming through again (they always do). There are plugins and programs, but to me this is too easy 
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