How to update Brave on Linux

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I installed Brave on Fedora Linux exactly as advised on this page: https://brave.com/linux/

It’s been a while and haven’t seen any updates, I know it’s updated very often, so wondering… how does my Brave update itself? Do I need to do manual commands in terminal? As I installed it manually as instructed, my Software app doesn’t see Brave as even being installed, so obviously can’t check for updates.

thanks

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Which linux - RHEL, OpenSUSE or Debian related?
Each have their own update tools in the command line. GUI tools are making it easier.

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I followed the section on Fedora, Rocky/RHEL as I have Fedora

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Hello @NoMoreFirefox

it will not show as app on the gnome software app but when you check for update it will work fine to check that everything work fine as expected

run the following command on your terminal

brave-browser-stable --version
it should print Brave Browser 127.1.68.134

if it did not then you need to check for update

dnf check-update
it will show if there any update

if there any update for brave then you need to run

sudo dnf update

hope that help and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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Can you just confirm please, are you saying there’s no way I can update my Brave installation via GUI process, i have to go into Terminal to keep checking for updates?
That’s a shame if so (I rarely use Terminal, it’s not good for my health, or my machine’s health! :smiley: )

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PS, no it didn’t print that. It printed:

Brave Browser 128.1.69.153

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Ha, looks like I answered this topic myself, thanks to your help above.
I ran updates in the Fedora GUI, and it did actually update Brave, now showing as having 128.1.69.160. So I guess Fedora GUI update process does indeed update Brave. That’s a relief! Thanks very much

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i mean it will not show up as an app on the gui (to be more specific it will not show any details about the app like it’s version and other stuff) but when you check for update using the gui it will show up if there are any update same as other app you installed

in other words you can update using the gui or the terminal
the terminal command was to give you the version that you have

cause my reply was 29 days ago so many update released

and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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oh, of course. hahaha. thank you

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@NoMoreFirefox you welcome :slight_smile: