Brave browser

[evpo]

Building from source

You need to install yarn and nodejs

You can get higher level instructions from this link:

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https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Linux-Development-Environment

I ran the prerequisite install commands from the page.

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apt-get install build-essential libgnome-keyring-dev python-setuptools npm

The last package npm doesn't install the npm command surprisingly

Following links from the page above, I executed below commands to install Yarn:

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curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
yarn import

Installing nodejs by following this link did not work: https://github.com/nodesource/distribut ... /README.md

The installer reported that the version of debian was not supported.

Luckily there is a package in the MX test repo: nodejs

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Package: nodejs
Version: 8.9.4-1~mx17+

The package provides the npm command required for building.

Download the source code from the git repo

The following commands are from this manual: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki

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git clone git@github.com:brave/brave-browser.git
cd brave-browser
npm install

The next command took a few hours:

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npm run init

I had to use --unsupported switch to install dependencies:

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./src/build/install-build-deps.sh --unsupported

The dependencies installed fine despite being unsupported.

Building from source

As I understand this build is not for mere mortals. You need special hardware with huge amount of RAM. At least my laptop bought two years ago with 12 GB of memory couldn't handle it. I started the build and waited for 4-5 days before giving up. I noticed CPU consumption didn't go up a lot. The problem was the disk and memory. Here is how I solved it. I used my desktop which is very old but it has an SSD hard drive. See the specs below:

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CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 bits: 64 type: MCP 
Memory: 3.85 GiB

I installed MX live on a memory stick, used frugal static and I made 24 GB swap file on the ssd drive:

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$ swapon
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/live/boot-dev/home/mx-user/mx-swap file 23G 378.8M -2
/dev/sdc5 partition 4G 0B -3

So in a way I extended my physical memory to the SSD drive. This strategy proved to be successful. Three days later the build finished and I got a brand new brave browser.

Solving the "no usable sandbox" problem

I had to install the chromium package "apt install chromium" , which provides chrome-sandbox. Then I made a link to the directory where brave executable is:

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ln -s /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox ./

Now my brave works fine including the tor tabs.

Installation

I stripped the resulting binary file because it was 6.4 GB. Here is the command:

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strip -o brave-strip brave
#test it and move
mv brave-strip brave

I copied run-time files to /opt/brave
Here is a list:

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brave
brave_100_percent.pak
brave_200_percent.pak
brave.desktop
brave_resources.pak
chrome_100_percent.pak
chrome_200_percent.pak
chrome-sandbox
extensions
headless_lib.pak
icon_before.bak
icudtl.dat
libEGL.so
libGLESv2.so
libVkICD_mock_icd.so
libVkLayer_core_validation.so
libVkLayer_object_lifetimes.so
libVkLayer_stateless_validation.so
libVkLayer_thread_safety.so
libVkLayer_unique_objects.so
libwidevinecdm.so
locales
natives_blob.bin
product_logo_48.png
resources
resources.pak
snapshot_blob.bin
v8_context_snapshot.bin
views_mus_resources.pak

The size went down to 263 MB

I found icons here: http://www.iconarchive.com/show/papirus ... -icon.html

I made brave.desktop and it went to /usr/share/applications
Icons went to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/...

Conclusion

This experience confirmed that a browser is OS pretending to be a browser

[Gerson]

Ufff... I got lost with such instruction and also I do not master English well.
I install Brave browser much more easily and I get updates without problem; The commands are the following:

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$ 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 -

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$ source /etc/os-release

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

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$ sudo apt update&&sudo apt install brave-keyring brave-browser

And with that I have Brave installed without problem.

[jazzy55]

Hello,
On my MX 17.i 64bit i can not get the brave browser to install at all .It has broken the synaptic pkg and Debian pkg manager and the system has stopped doing updates. :-( The synaptic pkg and Debian pkg manager is just greyed out ...I have found the files in the file manager /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ can i delete them from there ? I have tried this but the delete option when i right click it is also greyed out...Any ideas how to delete these files from my system to get it working again ?
Many Thanks ..Steve Rickards :-)

[NevilsStation]

And with that I have Brave installed without problem.

Did you install this in MX-17 or MX-18, please?

[Gerson]

Did you install this in MX-17 or MX-18, please?

When I used MX17 and 17.1 I had it installed, it cost me a little but now in MX 18 with the commands I placed, it installs without problem and also alerts you when there is a new version to update.

[jabon]

Ufff... I got lost with such instruction and also I do not master English well.
I install Brave browser much more easily and I get updates without problem; The commands are the following:

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$ 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 -

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$ source /etc/os-release

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

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$ sudo apt update&&sudo apt install brave-keyring brave-browser

And with that I have Brave installed without problem.

Those are the exact same instructions from the Brave website https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en ... html#linux to install in Ubuntu 16.04+ and Mint 18+.
But it wasn't enough for me, because after doing the above, when I run brave browser on terminal I was getting

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~ $ brave-browser
[5201:5201:0601/092550.117265:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No usable sandbox! You probably need to enable user namespaces in your kernel. See https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux for more information.
Trace/breakpoint trap

So after installing Brave using the above steps, these were the additional steps I did to make Brave work in my MX Linux 18.2
1. Switch to root user

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sudo su

2. Using instructions from here: https://superuser.com/questions/1094597 ... el#1122977

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echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf
service procps restart

Brave launched

[KBD]

There needs to be a much easier way to install Brave Browser on Debian :(

[figueroa]

Brave doesn't support Debian. MX is based on Debian. Why are y'all so eager to break your MX installations? Brave doesn't care about you. Firefox with Privacy Badger + /etc/host advert blocking, and/or Vivaldi.

[Gerson]

For me it works perfectly, it has no incompatibility with MX since I started using it over a year and a half ago, it is fast and I can see everything I need and work with it without restrictions. It blocks perfect what I do not want to see and I also collaborate with the rewards. It consumes little RAM. I use the same Chrome extensions. Firefox is slow and has given me freezes. My machine is not powerful and limited but works well with Brave.

[KBD]

It looks like an excellent stand in for Chrome, but with privacy focus. I tried it on a Windows machine last night and it looks very good. I tried to follow advice in this thread and it looked like it installed but wouldn't launch. Too bad there is not a simple deb package to download and use on Debian.