How to install Brave Beta on Ubuntu 18.04


The Brave Browser has quickly become my favorite Browser and it has become my default browser and I can't be happier.  Brave Browser has also a snap install for all their versions but in my experience, the apt version which we look at in the video works better.  Enjoy!

Brave has 3 releases, Brave Dev, Brave Beta and Brave (Stable).

Commands Used:
Brave Dev:

sudo apt install curl apt-transport-https

curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-dev.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-dev.s3.brave.com/ `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-dev-`lsb_release -sc`.list

sudo apt update


sudo apt install brave-browser-dev


Brave Beta:
sudo apt install curl apt-transport-https

curl https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt-staging/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt-staging `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-`lsb_release -sc`.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-beta


Brave:
sudo apt install curl apt-transport-https

curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-`lsb_release -sc`.list

sudo apt update


sudo apt install brave-browser brave-keyring

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