You can easily download videos from YouTube website from a Linux machine using this application. youtube-dl is a free terminal application which gives you an easy way to download video from YouTube. The new version of youtube-dl 2014.08.27.1 for Linux is now available for download. You can grab this youtube-dl 2014.08.27.1 from the link we provided below this post.
Please note that youtube-dl does not have GUI. It uses the Terminal command line to operate. But don't worry, its very easy to download a video from YouTube. Simply copy the video URL and type the following command on Terminal (example)
youtube-dl -o [name of output file] [YouTube URL]
Change:
[name of output file] with the output file name, this could be anything you want.
[YouTube URL] with the URL of a YouTube video you want to download.