How to install the Brave Browser on a Chromebook


Today we are looking at how to install the Brave Browser on a Chromebook.  Please follow the video below for a visual/audio guide and please find all the commands below which we used in the video.

The first command is installing a couple of applications that we need to install Brave.  The second and third command downloads and adds Brave repositories to our system.  The fourth commands update our systems repositories (just of the Linux Apps applications).  The fifth command will install Brave on your device.

Of course, as seen in the video, we firstly enable Linux Apps on our Chromebook.

If you want to update your application in the future, open a terminal session (like you did to install Brave), and copy/paste this command into it, sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU..

Please take note that with the release of Chrome OS 90,  the location of Linux Apps has been changed in the Chromebook’s settings.  Have a look at this tutorial, to see how to turn on Linux apps and then continue with the installation tutorial.

Commands Used:
1) sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl gnupg
2) 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 -
3) echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
4) sudo apt update
5) sudo apt install brave-browser

Official Site:
https://brave.com/

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