Browser-laptop: Failed to fetch /dists/artful/InRelease

[orschiro]

I performed the following two commands on Ubuntu MATE 17.10:

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

Now I am getting this error when running sudo apt update:

Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt-staging/dists/artful/InRelease  403  
Forbidden
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What can I do?

[orschiro]

Can be resolved by going into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-artful.list and replacing artful with zesty as follows:

deb [arch=amd64] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt-staging zesty main

[bsclifton]

@orschiro is there something which can be updated in our documentation?
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/docs/linuxInstall.md

[orschiro]

@bsclifton I think the documentation is actually correct. I just guess that there is no package for staging available yet for 17.10 artful which is the one I am using.

[bsclifton]

Interesting- support was added with https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10755

I wonder if staging hasn't been updated yet? (cc: @bbondy)

@orschiro can you try the production URL? We aren't fully utilizing the staging (yet). When we do publish, we typically update both at the same time

[orschiro]

@bsclifton sorry but which one is the production URL?

[bsclifton]

@orschiro that would be the one you add with this:

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

[orschiro]

@bsclifton these commands succeed but the latest version I get is 0.18.36-1.

[bsclifton]

@orschiro that is the latest release channel version. What version do you get with the staging repo url?

[orschiro]

@bsclifton let's roll back to the beginning. I am getting lost here. :-)

All I wanted was to test the Beta, Alpha or whatever you may call that on my Ubuntu 17.10.

How do I do this?

[bsclifton]

@orschiro good idea!

Just to be clear, the process you followed was 100% correct! 😄 Unfortunately, when we do releases, we haven't been running the job for the staging (beta) repo ☹️

I made some tweaks to this script (it was only working for the release channel, unfortunately) and it should now be working for you! Please let me know and you can close the issue if it's working as expected

In the future: if the staging url is neglected (we'll be getting better at this, I promise!), you can always wget/curl the package from https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases and install (but using apt is a lot nicer of course).

The additional channels are we have are still a work-in-progress (beta, developer, nightly). You may be interested to follow https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10189 which is where we formally introduce the other channels

[orschiro]

In the future: if the staging url is neglected (we'll be getting better at this, I promise!), you can always wget/curl the package from https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases and install (but using apt is a lot nicer of course).

This is useful to know. Thanks! :-)