Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file

Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file – Totem Movie Player

September 22, 2009 by msverman

I received a comment on my post “How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?” from jaleshd@gmail.com on August 26, 2009.

The Comment was -
when i click on a video to view it, it says -’could not open location. you may not have permission to open the file. ‘

Then I had doubt it could be due to the wireless network, because now a days most of the people started using Laptops rather than using a Desktop PC. Most of the laptops have In-build wireless, which makes people easy to access network where ever they go.

I had never received such a error because I was using wired Internet connection.

Then I started Google, relating to that of wireless network and then found it is a bug and it has been resolved.

just refer : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/323649

How did the problem solved ?

Download Patch to totem-plugins-2.26.1-0ubuntu5/youtube.py (565 bytes, text/plain) to desktop.

Copied the patch to /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ cd /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ sudo cp /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch .

Then patch the file youtube.py with totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

$ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

Thus the patch fixes the error
”Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file.” .

Now it works fine.

* I Thank all comments and credit for all my efforts to keep going.
For more info refer : How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?

Posted in UBUNTU | 19 Comments

19 Responses

on September 22, 2009 at 9:31 am | Reply Mihir Patel

Hello,

It’s Really Nice post about permission for totem. Many of peoples never consider permission problem totem movie player.

Thanks for sharing information. I am gonna try this out.

Regards,
Mihir
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on September 29, 2009 at 8:47 pm | Reply wilfred

Hallo,

I had exactly the same problem and I was able to fix it thanks to your post.

Thank you,

Wilfred
on September 30, 2009 at 12:07 am | Reply cazo

Thanks! This also worked for my Fedora 11 system.
on October 2, 2009 at 4:34 am | Reply Todd

I followed your instructions to the letter, but after entering the cp command,

“sudo cp /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch”

I receive a message,

“cp: missing destination file operand after `/home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch’”

I’m a fairly new Linux user and can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong. Help?
- on October 2, 2009 at 5:27 pm | Reply Srinivasaverman
  
  cp is the copy command in linux.
  
  $ cp /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch .
  
  where ” /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch ” is the path where the totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch is available, which is followed by a ” . ” to copy the patch file in present directory.
  
  copy the patch file in /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube and then patch the file youtube.py with totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch
  
  $ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch
  
  Thus the patch fixes the error.
on October 6, 2009 at 6:52 pm | Reply kmk420

lol not helpful at all gave me a damn head ache could u pls give instruction that actually work pls thank you.

kmk420@kmk420-desktop:/usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube$ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch
sudo: patch: command not found
kmk420@kmk420-desktop:/usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube$

yes i put the patch there hmmm i wonder what im doing worng
- on October 7, 2009 at 2:36 am | Reply verman
  
  Are you using Ubuntu 9.04 ?
on October 9, 2009 at 2:29 am | Reply Massimo

I found on a web site this command that solves the problem:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc

The above builds some missing packages and utilities.
Patch is one of them.
- on October 9, 2009 at 2:33 am | Reply verman
  
  Can you share the website link with us
- on October 10, 2009 at 8:43 am | Reply SneakyWho_am_i
  
  I am imagining that installing “patch” would cause patch to be installed on your system, and that build-essential has it as a dependency.
  
  All serious programmer types are going to need build-essential, but for the rest of us it is probably enough to say:
  sudo apt-get install patch
  
  I wonder if the guy above us is using Ubuntu though… When I type in a command provided as a program by some package, if it’s no installed, it usually says this:
  
  $ wesnoth
  The program ‘wesnoth’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
  sudo apt-get install wesnoth-core
  bash: wesnoth: command not found
  
  I’d expect patch to say this if it weren’t installed:
  
  $ patch
  The program ‘patch’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
  sudo apt-get install patch
  bash: patch: command not found
  
  But everything above this line is speculation.
  
  build-essential depends on all these:
  11.4 – libc6-dev (16 (null)) libc-dev (0 (null)) g++ (2 4:4.3.1) make (0 (null)) dpkg-dev (2 1.13.5)
  
  It is a metapackage for pulling in tools required for software development via said deps.
  
  The interesting one is dpkg-dev, which depends on all these:
  1.14.24ubuntu1 – dpkg (2 1.14.6) perl5 (0 (null)) perl-modules (0 (null)) cpio (2 2.4.2-2) bzip2 (0 (null)) lzma (0 (null)) patch (2 2.2-1) make (0 (null)) binutils (0 (null)) libtimedate-perl (0 (null)) gnupg (0 (null)) debian-keyring (0 (null)) gcc (16 (null)) c-compiler (0 (null)) build-essential (0 (null)) devscripts (3 2.10.26) dpkg-cross (3 2.0.0) manpages-pl (1 20051117-1)
  
  Notice that patch is among those.
  
  That’s an awful lot of apps to install just for patch, if I’m right.
  Still… They’re certainly not harmful programs
on October 9, 2009 at 8:56 am | Reply miloš

how do you download that patch?
on October 10, 2009 at 3:59 pm | Reply Playing Youtube videos in Movie Player on Ubuntu 9.04 | oyvindhauge.com

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on October 11, 2009 at 3:24 am | Reply Raul

Will this work with Mandriva ?
on October 11, 2009 at 9:58 am | Reply miloš

alright!
on October 16, 2009 at 5:57 am | Reply noname

Thanks! it worked.
on October 18, 2009 at 5:10 pm | Reply Jack

It took some trial-and-error to get the correct syntax and spacing, but the above patch works. Thanks!
on October 19, 2009 at 10:20 am | Reply Dustin

Hi, I’m also new at this

I copied the text in the link into a text file and saved it. Copied it into the plugin directory… I installed the patch command.

However, when I put in

$ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

The patch command never completes. I can just keep typing endlessly…. at the very least I’m missing some syntax somewhere in the patch command.
Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks!
on November 4, 2009 at 12:13 am | Reply siegfried78

sudo apt-get install nautilus
on November 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm | Reply giova

I can’t paste the patch in to /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube….
why???