Brave install on chromebook linux E: Unable to locate package brave-browser

[jlk]

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Description of the issue:
Brave installation using linux container on chromebook laptop fails.
gives the following error
E: Unable to locate package brave-browser

these are the specs for the chromebook
[CHROME VERSION] 97.0.4692.91
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 26.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 2

processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 26.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 2

processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 26.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 0

processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 26.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 0
**How can this issue be reproduced?
[==========] Ready
(“https:” replaced by xxx because otherwise post is blocked)
j@penguin:~$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
curl is already the newest version (7.64.0-4+deb10u2).
curl set to manually installed.
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt-transport-https
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 149 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 xxxx//deb.debian.org/debian buster/main arm64 apt-transport-https all 1.8.2.3 [149 kB]
Fetched 149 kB in 0s (366 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database … 33282 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/apt-transport-https_1.8.2.3_all.deb …
Unpacking apt-transport-https (1.8.2.3) over (1.8.2.2) …
Setting up apt-transport-https (1.8.2.3) …
j@penguin:~$ sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg xxxx//brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
j@penguin:~$ echo “deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] xxxx//brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main”|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] xxxx//brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
j@penguin:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 xxxx//brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease [4,317 B]
Hit:2 xxxx//deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Ign:3 xxxx//storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/97 buster InRelease
Hit:4 xxxx//storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/97 buster Release
Get:5 xxxx//deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Get:6 xxxx//brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable/main amd64 Packages [3,939 B]
Fetched 73.6 kB in 2s (43.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
j@penguin:~$ sudo apt install brave-browser
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package brave-browser

*Expected result: E: Unable to locate package brave-browser

Brave Version( check About Brave): NA

Additional Information:

[rdr1]

It should be there… perhaps you added AMD64 packages when this is an ARM chromebook? Although maybe not, since it grabbed apt-transport-https from the amd64 repositories.

EDIT actually this appears to be the issue. It’s an ARM chromebook and you need the ARM version of Brave, but you’ve added the AMD64 repository. Unfortunately, I don’t know if there is an official or unofficial ARM version at this time, I know someone was working on it a couple years ago but I don’t know what came of it.