Download link for installing brave linux is broken

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. type in an existing browser: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com

Expected result:
is to have access to the install repository for brave
Brave Version( check About Brave):
for Debian 9+, Ubuntu 14.04+ and Mint 17+
Additional Information:
Worked in earlier times, now i am getting:
NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.index.htmlF79E92D8F5D44E0FMAdXDBYzIID/oS/1eBZP5cfVwHw3zQm02zj44EtFvdSDs50od2yoypzqaiDlbPlVWTo2l7iQL9E=

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You can find the correct URLs for the Linux repositories at https://brave.com/linux/.

I agree that the page you link to above could be more helpful, but there is nothing hosted there directly.

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you should use package manager
debian based: sudo apt install brave
arch based: sudo pacman -S brave
RHEL bases: yum install brave
or download, extract and type:
makepkg -si or sudo make or sudo make install

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Yoge67855

Thank you for your reply

My OS: knoppix 8.6.1

  1. I typed:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave

and get the following:

Reading package listsā€¦ Done
E: The value ā€˜stableā€™ is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

CLEARLY THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION!

I also AGAIN went through the install steps for debian 9+. No success. ā€œUnable to locate package brave-browserā€

  1. With reference to:

or download, extract and type:
makepkg -si or sudo make or sudo make install

where do i download from? brave.com/linux/#linux mentions the same install procedure for debian linux > with ā€˜broken linkā€™:

AWAITING FOR VIABLE SOLUTION STILLā€¦

Any deb packages that i can download for this browser?

Stephen

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Hi Francois

My OS: Knoppix 8.6.1

In terminal:

uname -a

Result: Linux Microknoppix 5.3.5-64 #16 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 23 02:08:38 CEST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

dpkg --print-architecture

Result: i386

So with a 64 bit kernal and a 32 bit reading what is Knoppix??

Brave clearly supports amd64 (64 bit) only!

https://brave.com/linux/ only provides the install steps with the following source >

https://brave-browser-apt-nightly.s3.brave.com/

Stephen

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then try:

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl gnupg

curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/brave-browser-release.gpg add -

echo ā€œdeb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable mainā€ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

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for beta, dev or nightly
but instead of
sudo apt install brave-browser
you type:
sudo apt install brave-browser-beta
or
sudo apt install brave-browser-dev
or
sudo apt install brave-browser-nightly

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Hm, thatā€™s weird. It does look like you are running a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit distribution.

While we only support 64-bit distributions, you might be able to add amd64 as a foreign architecture and then install the brave-browser package as a ā€œforeignā€ 64-bit package. Iā€™ve never tried it myself but https://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/972-How-to-amd64-an-i386-Debian-installation-with-multiarch.html suggests that it might work.

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Hi yoge67855

I tried the steps you gave me and no success.
I did the following in terminal:
1)Uname -a
2)Dpkg --print-architecture

Result:
1)ā€“amd64 kernel
2)i386

So it seems my OS (knoppix 8.6.1) uses 64 bit kernel with 32 bit architecture. How do i add brave as ā€˜foreignā€™ package?

Regards

Stephen

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Hi Francois

I ran the following command:

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

and it returned nothing. I was hoping to see amd64

Then I tried

sudo dpkg --addā€“architecture amd64

Now retype:

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

Result: amd64

Then:

sudo apt install brave-browser

Result:

Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
brave-browser:amd64 : Depends: libasound2:amd64 (>= 1.0.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libatk-bridge2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.5.3) but it is not installable
Depends: libatk1.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libatspi2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.9.90) but it is not installable
Depends: libc6:amd64 (>= 2.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libcairo2:amd64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libcups2:amd64 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libdbus-1-3:amd64 (>= 1.5.12) but it is not installable
Depends: libdrm2:amd64 (>= 2.4.38) but it is not installable
Depends: libexpat1:amd64 (>= 2.0.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libgbm1:amd64 (>= 8.1~0) but it is not installable
Depends: libgcc1:amd64 (>= 1:3.3) but it is not installable
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libglib2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.39.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libgtk-3-0:amd64 (>= 3.9.10) but it is not installable
Depends: libnspr4:amd64 (>= 2:4.9-2~) but it is not installable
Depends: libnss3:amd64 (>= 2:3.22) but it is not installable
Depends: libpango-1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libx11-6:amd64 (>= 2:1.4.99.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libx11-xcb1:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb1:amd64 (>= 1.9.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcomposite1:amd64 (>= 1:0.3-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxdamage1:amd64 (>= 1:1.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxext6:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxfixes3:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxkbcommon0:amd64 (>= 0.4.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxrandr2:amd64 but it is not installable
Depends: brave-keyring:amd64 but it is not installable
Recommends: libvulkan1:amd64 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Finally:

I did my research on 10 best secure browsers:

https://www.wizcase.com/blog/private-browsers-and-better-online-privacy/#chromium

I found Chromium, it is already installed in Knoppix, so I will settle for this then. How ever I still like brave. It does not seem by the above that I will be able to install those dependencies without breaking my OS.

Francois Thank you for your helpfulness

Regards

Stephen

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