How to install the Brave browser on a Chromebook

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Today we are looking at how to install the Brave browser on a Chromebook.

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This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU.

Please use the video as a visual guide, and the commands and links below to install it on your Chromebook.

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1) 00:05 (time stamp in the video)
We start the process by enabling the Linux Container on our Chromebook.  You can always remove it again in the future as well if needed.

To enable it, we go to the settings of our Chromebook, inside of it, we click on the "Advance" option in the left panel, and then the "Developers" section. Then enable Linux from there as seen in the video.

2) 00:36
Now we continue to the next phase in the tutorial and that is to run several commands in our Linux terminal, which will install the Brave Browser.

Some general facts about the terminal.  To paste a command into the Linux terminal, press "Ctrl Shift v" together.  After you paste a command into the Linux terminal, please press "enter" to run it.  At some commands you will see a question to press Y or n to continue.  If you see it press "enter" to continue.

2.1)  This command will some packags which we need to install Brave.  The Y and n question will appear in this command, please press "enter" then.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl gnupg

2.2) 01:19 This command will download and add a Brave security key to our Linux container.

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 -

2.3) 01:28 This command will add a Brave repository to our Linux container.

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

2.4) 01:38 This command will update the repositories of our Linux container.

sudo apt update

2.5) 01:52 This command will install the Brave Browser.

sudo apt install brave-browser

3) 02:15 Now we will launcher the Brave Browser.

Enjoy!

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