[newb 1 2-2018]

Sorry for the confusion from me not being specific.  I am running Kodi 17.5.  I downloaded the second one from the list :

plugin.video.youtube-5.5.0.alpha16.zip

You need to unzip it and then copy the plugin.video.youtube folder/directory into your Kodi addons directory.

Thanks for the reply I appreciate it.
I hope you did not unzip everything because I don't know how you would copy everything in a Raspberry Pi. What I did was put a USB stick in my laptop copy to files and put the USB stick in the Raspberry Pi USB port. Then you go to add-ons and install from zip file and browse to your USB stick and install the file from there. I just was not sure which file to install.

After I install the YouTube zip file and set everything up what I'm wondering is if I can keep my 17.3 installation due to a problem with Samba on 17.5. I've also heard people having problems with 17.6
But I'll have to report that Saba issue somewhere else I'll post back after I'm done installing the zip.

So at least now I know that the link on post #2
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2690038 where they're talking about 5.5.0 Alpha15zip is incorrect it needs to be 5.5.0 alpha16 zip