Linux Install without updating sources

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Hi all
I’m using Linux more and more (Mint) and I’m not a complete noob, I can follow the instruction to update repos and install but it would be great if I could just install using
apt install brave-browser

I’m writing an ansilble script to configure a fresh environment how I want it, I’m sure it will be possible as it is now but would be much cleaner if I could the standard package manager config.

Surely this is not too hard?
Please don’t do a flatpak or snap, they seems to be buggy in my very limited experience.

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I agree, and I would like to see this happen across more Linux distros.

For better or for worse, I think currently the best thing to do is to take your request to the distro itself. I’m not sure what the process is, but I imagine there must be one. And maybe they will take volunteers as well, many major distros have a distributed model where community members/users take responsibility for certain packages, and keeping them up to date, and so on.

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sorry not sure if i got you
but the offecial linux installation for debain or any deriviative of debian (ubuntu/mint)
is as this link

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

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

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

and i totoaly agree that snap is buggy and flatpak lack security in it’s core

sorry if i miss understand your post

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I think he meant he wishes that the distro’s own, native repos had Brave packages.

You could be right though, I guess we’ll just have to wait for the OP to weigh in. Certainly as you suggested, after adding the repo initially, installation and updates are simple.

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got it now thanks for exxplanations
i think cause there will be faster update as it would take time for each distro to update their distro

and in some certain app i prefer to your the dev repo cause i get update faster which could fix one of the critical bug in faster way that what i do when installing database for example i do not install it from the disro repo

sure time will till
thanks again and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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