Error: Type '“deb' is not known on line 1 in source list

Browser Support
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Kubuntu 25.04
Brave 1.79.123 (Official Build) (64-bit)

When I installed, I used the instructions for Ubuntu at https://brave.com/linux/#debian-ubuntu-mint/ , however since then have been getting this msg:

N: Skipping acquire of configured file .. as explained in SOLVED: Linux .deb install gives error when you apt update a repository . So, after doing that, no change at all, same msg everytime I do an sudo apt update

Then I found this post today - Repository doesn't support the 'i386' architecture , but now still an error, and can’t do any updates. The error msg is:

Error: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
Error: The list of sources could not be read.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

“deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main”

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So , after inspecting the other files in the sources list, I removed the leading and trailing quotes. Problem solved.

Possibly the Brave team need to update the Ubuntu installation instructions, to make a note to remove the quotes.