Brave-browser: Can't install Brave beta on Ubuntu 18.10

Created on 3 Nov 2018  路  2Comments  路  Source: brave/brave-browser

Description

When I try to install Brave beta with the instructions from the Brave website it gives me a 403 Error after updating.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. curl https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/brave-core-nightly.asc | sudo apt-key add -
  2. echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/ lsb_release -sc main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-beta-lsb_release -sc.list
  3. sudo apt update

Actual result:

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-backports InRelease
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-proposed InRelease [92.5 kB]
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/daniruiz/flat-remix/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Ign:7 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Hit:9 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Err:10 https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 151.101.22.217 443]
Get:11 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary cosmic InRelease [11.4 kB]
Get:13 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary cosmic/main amd64 Packages [48.2 kB]
Get:14 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary cosmic/main all Packages [6,380 B]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/dists/cosmic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 151.101.22.217 443]
E: The repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Expected result:

Brave beta should install

Reproduces how often:

everytime

Brave version (brave://version info)

Current beta as of 11/3/2018 on Ubuntu 18.10

QNo release-noteexclude

Most helpful comment

Workaround

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-cosmic.list

from
deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ cosmic main

to
deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bionic main

All 2 comments

I'm facing the same issue. Can't install Brave on Ubuntu 18.10

Workaround

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-cosmic.list

from
deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ cosmic main

to
deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bionic main

Was this page helpful?
0 / 5 - 0 ratings