Browser-laptop: Can't install brave on Ubuntu 18.04

[rgonnering]

Description

$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [235 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Err:6 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 52.218.212.128 443]
...

Steps to Reproduce

Followed 'brave install' steps from
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/docs/linuxInstall.md

$ sudo echo

$ curl https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1828 100 1828 0 0 1971 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1969
OK

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

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-*.list
deb [arch=amd64] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic main

$ grep lsb_release /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave*

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install brave
...
Err:6 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 52.218.212.128 443]

Actual result:

~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [235 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Err:6 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 52.218.212.128 443]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [1,023 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [1,012 kB]
Hit:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [517 kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [469 kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [254 kB]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages [8,561 kB]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages [8,525 kB]
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe Translation-en [4,941 kB]
Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,002 kB]
Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [8,125 kB]
Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 Packages [150 kB]
Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse i386 Packages [143 kB]
Get:20 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.8 kB]
Get:21 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [216 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt/dists/bionic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 52.218.212.128 443]
E: The repository 'https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic 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 should install.

Reproduces how often:
100%

Brave Version

N/A. Can't install. Attempted install 4-18-2018, if that helps.

Reproducible on current live release:

Additional Information

[kjozwiak]

@rgonnering could you please provide us with some more information? Which method are you using to install Brave? I believe Ubuntu 18 is still in the early BETA phase. I'll try downloading one of the daily builds and see if I can reproduce.

[rgonnering]

Hi kjozwiak,

The method steps are listed in the ### Steps to Reproduce Section, as specified in the Brave Installation Instructions for Ubuntu. Are you asking for something else?

Thanks,
Roger

[kjozwiak]

Thanks @rgonnering, should be enough info to reproduce. Your original report basically had Brave should install. and that's pretty much it. Usually the more information the better 👍

[rgonnering]

Hi kjozwiak,
I removed the tags from the report, and the information shows up now.
Roger

[retrocausal]

I weigh in here. just felt helpless trying to install brave on a brand new ubuntu 18.04 system. the errors, exactly similar to the one detailed above when I try an apt install.

I could possibly use snap install, since bionic beaver is snappy, but I had had issues in the past , and have opened tickets as well, where the snaps were not released in time and never kept up with the updates of the latest desktop releases.

[plaxer]

Having the same error on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS as well.

user@pc-name:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade 
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewaldock/flux/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease                                                                
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]                                                              
Get:4 http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]                                                              
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                                           
Hit:6 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease                                                                    
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                                              
Hit:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                                                               
Hit:9 http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                            
Err:10 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic InRelease                           
  403  Forbidden [IP: 52.218.201.112 443]
Hit:11 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease                          
Hit:12 http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease    
Reading package lists... Done                      
E: Failed to fetch https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt/dists/bionic/InRelease  403  Forbidden [IP: 52.218.201.112 443]
E: The repository 'https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt bionic 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.

The browser installed and works just find but I keep seeing that error whenever I use the update/upgrade command.

[WalkingSouth]

Hi, I had the same issue when attempting the steps you specified yesterday, which was the release date of Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic". I have found this article to be useful, which states to use the code

snap find brave sudo snap install brave

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2388431

This is my first comment, made the account to say this. That being said, if my response is misformatted and/or breaks community guidelines or ToS et. al, please let me know and I will fix it.

[mikran]

I just upgraded to 18.04 and this happened to me too.

[gabrieldnzs]

I am using Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and have the same problem.

[kjozwiak]

I'm moving this into the 0.22.x Release 3 (Beta channel) milestone. Ubuntu 18.04 is now an LTS version which means most folks are going to start using or started upgrading to it. From all the above comments, it sounds like we have issues that need to be resolved here.

We should fix this before pushing a new version of Brave. We're going to frustrate a lot of Ubuntu users as it's one, if not the most popular distro on the market.

@bsclifton thoughts?

[bsclifton]

I believe I know how to solve this- will check and share findings

[bsclifton]

re-opening until I can run out deploy job and test the fix 😄

Removed the milestone since this fix is not contained in an actual release

[JR1994]

I am having the same issue on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04

Manually installing the .deb package worked

[bsclifton]

Verified fix for deb (pushed for brave-beta); working through the RPM side with help from @evq

[bsclifton]

@rgonnering @JR1994 @mikran @WalkingSouth @gabrieldnzs @plaxer @retrocausal this issue should now be fixed 😄 I've tested it myself using a fresh install of Ubuntu 18. I made sure to update both brave and brave-beta (and tested both)

Please let us know how it goes 😄

[plaxer]

Can confirm its working fine now. Thanks Clifton.

[kjozwiak]

Thanks for working and getting this done @bsclifton! I'm sure the community will really appreciate it 👍

[rgonnering]

Thanks for the help.

I have not been able to install Brave, but that is not related to this
ticket. Once I get that resolved, I will try to install Brave again.

Thanks,
Roger

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Kamil Jozwiak [e-mail]
wrote:

Thanks for working and getting this done @bsclifton
https://github.com/bsclifton! I'm sure the community will really
appreciate it 👍

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[gabrieldnzs]

@bsclifton @kjozwiak It's working on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS! Thanks for the help! I'm using Brave as my primary navigator for a week and i'm very happy with the browser. Keep the good work :+1:

[rgonnering]

Brave installation on 18.04 confirmed good.

Thanks

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:33 PM, gabrieldnzs [e-mail]
wrote:

@bsclifton https://github.com/bsclifton @kjozwiak
https://github.com/kjozwiak It's working on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS! Thanks
for the help! I'm using Brave as my primary navigator for a week and i'm
very happy with the browser. Keep the good work 👍

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[bitcoinuser]

Hi, I'm having this problem trying to install Brave Browser on Ubuntu 18.10:

leonardo@leonardo-Aspire-V5-471:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt update
Atingido:1 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease
Atingido:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security InRelease
Atingido:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Atingido:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Atingido:5 https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease
Atingido:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Atingido:7 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Atingido:8 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates InRelease
Atingido:9 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-backports InRelease
Err:10 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease
403 Forbidden [IP: 151.101.94.217 443]
Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
E: Falhou ao buscar https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/dists/cosmic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 151.101.94.217 443]
E: The repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.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.
leonard

[iizno]

Same issue here, same error on Ubuntu 18.10.

403 Forbidden on beta and release repository.

[k0pernicus]

Same thing for me (Ubuntu 18.10)

[msaglietto]

Hey guys...
After following the instruction on the download page I get this errors (beta and dev) on ubuntu 18.10

Err:10 https://brave-browser-apt-dev.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease                                                                                                                                                             
  503  Connection timed out [IP: 151.101.134.217 443]
Err:15 https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease                                                   
  503  Connection timed out [IP: 151.101.134.217 443]

[kt1024]

same issue on ubuntu 18.04. with release channel. @bsclifton

[bsclifton]

Hi there folks

This code-base (browser-laptop) is deprecated; we've replaced it with "brave-core" which is what is present on https://brave.com. The GitHub repository for this new code-base is https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

Can you please give the instructions at https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux a try and let us know how it works? Thanks 😄

[msaglietto]

Thanks @bsclifton .. sorry google search brought me here

Those are the instructions I followed to have this problem .. should we open a new issue on brave-core ?

Also there is this cat on the instruction of development channel that I think is not need it =P

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-xenial.list

[kt1024]

@bsclifton I'm exactly following https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux

and I found the reason why I failed.
I'm using elementary OS 5.0 Juno(based on ubuntu 18.04), the script on 1st step will generate a file with 'juno' name,

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-juno.list 
deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ juno main

change 'juno' in list file to 'bionic' fix the problem.

pls consider those people using elementary OS. thanks.

[blackweta]

Tried on Ubuntu 19 - and got error The repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com cosmic InRelease' is not signed.

E: Failed to fetch https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/dists/cosmic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 151.101.194.217 443]
E: The repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.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.
root@zaphod42:~#

[avndp]

Hey, I'm using Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic, and I'm facing the same issue:

I've followed these instructions: https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux

Neither these worked, nor the default instructions worked. How to solve the issue?

[srirambv]

@avndp https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux is for new brave-browser not for browser laptop. The instructions mentioned here wont work for browser laptop.

You are on Cosmic which is not the LTS version. This is not configured yet to be supported

[msaglietto]

Since brave-browser is the main repo check https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1981 for solutions .. there is a workaround now to try

[thenickcox]

Leaving this here in case someone else finds this from a Google search like me. I was having an issue where the Linux steps on readthedics.io for Ubuntu just hung during the initial curl step. Running sudo apt-get update and then trying again worked.