I'm not in the sudoers file

[Fanboi]

I may just give up on Brave and move on.

Or you could just grab the Appimage:

Release Brave AppImage Continuous Stable · srevinsaju/Brave-AppImage

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When downloaded, chmod a+x Brave<blahblah>.AppImage and then move it to "$HOME.local/bin/brave-browser". You'll need to create .local/bin, so
mkdir $HOME/.local/bin
mv Brave<blahblah>.AppImage $HOME/.local/bin/brave-browser
No "install" required and completely isolated. Just run "brave-browser" (or whatever you name it to) and it'll work. This is not the best way to do it. See below for the extras:


Before that, forgot to mention: if you want it system-wide, I suggest dropping the AppImage in /opt/ and symlinking it to /usr/local/bin/brave-browser, eg: ln -s /opt/<brave's dir>/Brave<blahblah>.AppImage /usr/local/bin/brave-browser.

But what about updates? Well this is my system:
[Local]:
(chmod u+x)
$HOME/.local/lib/ - each program's directory goes in here
$HOME/.local/bin/ - symlinks to each program in the above

[Global]:
(chmod a+x)
/opt/ - each program's directory
/usr/local/bin/ - symlink to each program in the above

I had setup automation on my previous install, but now I do it manually as I realized the ROI was not worth proper management since I rarely update AppImages so long as they work. So on those rare occasions, I manually update symlinks to reflect the new AppImage name.
However there is a project (actually 2 but I forget the other) to provide package management for AppImages: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM

Enjoy!
PS: I rushed this post do don't be afraid to ask "what did you mean by X?" and I'll assist with whatever I made clear as mud, lol. Likely someone'll answer it before I do; we have great folks here!

 

[wizardfromoz]

curl: (7) Failed to connect to brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com port 443 after 88565 ms: Couldn't connect to server

@darwin-t - if what you have posted in that Post is correct, then you have taken the commands out of order.

Once curl is installed (and you say it is, now), then you should follow that with

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg


# and then


echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list


# followed by


sudo apt update


# and finally


sudo apt install brave-browser

I have just used that sequence on my Debian 12 Cinnamon and it worked fine.

Cheers

Wizard

 

[darwin-t]

Did you go here to install Brave?

Installing Brave on Linux | Brave

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.

brave.com

Or some other way? Synaptic maybe or the cmd-line?

Yes, I was trying to use the curl command from Brave's web site.
I had written a bash file to do the installation. It hadn't worked before, but I just tried it and it successfully installed the Brave browser! I am using it right now to make this reply.

 

[wizardfromoz]

@darwin-t , good outcome.

When you are sure this is solved, you can mark it as such by going to your first post, and do as follows

Near bottom left of the post click Edit - (No Prefix) - Solved

If you have further questions on Brave please start a new thread.

Wizard