How to access the internet on 64 bit UBUNTU through wine?

Question

I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed, and Wine 1.6. I downloaded Wine to be able to run YTD (youtube download manager), an application meant for windows. Sadly, it tells me that there is no internet connection, but on the Wine official site it says that it is supported and fully functional. I need a workaround for this please.

Answer 1

Unless you're a diehard fan of that particular youtube downloader app, save yourself the hassle of setting it up in wine and, like Wilf suggested, just grab a native downloader like youtube-dl instead.

Instructions:

1. Open a terminal window by pressing ctrl+alt+t

2. Enter the following commands to install youtube-dl

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

3. Download your videos by entering the following command into any terminal window

   youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=[VIDEO_CODE]

   e.g.

   youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxD_kWK8A5M

4. For more advanced usage instructions, like downloading videos in a particular format, or downloading multiple videos at once, see this article.