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How do I install Brave on Linux using the terminal?

Notes on Linux Installation:

  • If Brave does not start and shows an error about sandboxing, you may need to enable user namespaces. For security reasons, we do NOT recommend running with the --no-sandbox flag. For more info, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1986#issuecomment-445057361.
  • Brave installation via Snap is no-longer officially supported. Since Snap is community-driven and Brave cannot guarantee that they are up to date with our security updates. 

Release Channel Installation

Ubuntu 16.04+

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

Mint 17+

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

UBUNTU_CODENAME=$( (grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release || grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/lsb-release) 2>/dev/null | cut -d'=' -f2 )

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

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser brave-keyring

Fedora 28+

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc

sudo dnf install brave-browser brave-keyring

Centos/RHel

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc

sudo cat << EOF >  /etc/yum.repos.d/Brave.repo
[brave]
name=Brave Browser repo
baseurl=https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
enabled=1
EOF

sudo yum install brave-browser brave-keyring

Beta Channel Installation

Ubuntu 16.04+

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

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

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser-beta

Mint 17+

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

UBUNTU_CODENAME=$( (grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release || grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/lsb-release) 2>/dev/null | cut -d'=' -f2 )

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/ $UBUNTU_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-beta-$UBUNTU_CODENAME.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser-beta

Fedora 28+

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-beta.s3.brave.com/x86_64/

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-beta.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc

sudo dnf install brave-browser-beta

Centos/RHel

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-beta.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc

sudo cat << EOF >  /etc/yum.repos.d/Brave.repo
[brave]
name=Brave Browser repo
baseurl=https://brave-browser-rpm-beta.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
enabled=1
EOF

sudo yum install brave-browser-beta

Developer Channel Installation

Ubuntu 16.04+

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

Mint 17+

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

UBUNTU_CODENAME=$( (grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release || grep DISTRIB_CODENAME /etc/lsb-release) 2>/dev/null | cut -d'=' -f2 )

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

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser-dev

Fedora 28+

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-dev.s3.brave.com/x86_64/

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-dev.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc

sudo dnf install brave-browser-dev

Centos/RHel

sudo rpm --import  https://brave-browser-rpm-dev.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc

sudo cat << EOF >  /etc/yum.repos.d/Brave.repo
[brave]
name=Brave Browser repo
baseurl=https://brave-browser-rpm-dev.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
enabled=1
EOF
sudo yum install brave-browser-dev

Uninstalling Release Channel

Debian/Ubuntu Distributions

sudo apt remove brave-browser
sudo apt purge brave-browser
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave*.*

Fedor/CentOS Distributions

Brave Browser Release 
dnf remove brave-browser
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/
rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/brave*.repo

Uninstall Beta Channel

Debian/Ubuntu Distributions

sudo apt remove brave-browser-beta
sudo apt purge brave-browser-beta
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave*.*

Fedora/CentOS Distributions

Brave Browser Beta 
dnf remove brave-browser-beta
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/
rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/brave*.repo

Uninstall Developer Channel

Debian/Ubuntu Distributions

sudo apt remove brave-browser-dev
sudo apt purge brave-browser-dev
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Dev/
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave*.*

Fedora/CentOS Distributions

dnf remove brave-browser-dev
rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Dev/
rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/brave*.repo

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