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How to Install Brave on Linux mint 18.03

To Install Brave on Linux mint 18.03
Brave is a free and open-source pay-to-surf web browser developed by Brave Software Inc. based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink engine. The browser blocks ads and website trackers. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of brave on Linux mint 18.03.

Installation

First, we need to download the repo keys and add them to the keyring.  

linuxhelp ~ # wget -qO - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
OK

Add the repository of brave.

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt xenial main"

Update the system repository using the following command

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]                      
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]                     
Get:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages [3,128 B]                    
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]                                    
Get:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner i386 Packages [3,116 B]
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Get:44 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [7,420 B]                  
Get:45 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [7,104 B]                   
Get:46 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,996 B]                  
Fetched 6,171 kB in 10s (567 kB/s)                                                                          
Reading package lists... Done

Finally, install the Brave browser application.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install brave -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  brave
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 434 not upgraded.
Need to get 96.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 439 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt xenial/main amd64 brave amd64 0.23.79-1 [96.6 MB]
Fetched 96.6 MB in 1min 40s (957 kB/s)                                                                      
Selecting previously unselected package brave.
(Reading database ... 225426 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../brave_0.23.79-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking brave (0.23.79-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up brave (0.23.79-1) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here

Now, you can able to use the brave browser application.

The version of brave web browser.

With this, the method to install brave on Linux mint 18.03 comes to an end.

Tag : Linux Mint Browser
FAQ
Q
How to install the install the Brave browser?
A
Using the following scripts:

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install brave -y
Q
How to Update the system repository?
A
using the following command:

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease

Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]

Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease
Q
How to Add the repository of brave?
A
Execute the follow script:

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt xenial main"
Q
How to download the repo keys?
A
Execute the following scripts:

linuxhelp ~ # wget -qO - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -

OK
Q
What is Brave on Linux mint?
A
Brave is a free and open-source pay-to-surf web browser developed by Brave Software Inc. based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink engine. The browser blocks ads and website trackers.