How To Install Brave Browser on Debian 11

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Brave Browser on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac, and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. Brave also claimed its browser puts less strain on your computer’s performance than Google Chrome, regardless of how much you ask of it. Even with multiple tabs open at once, Brave uses less memory than Google Chrome-like.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Brave Browser on a Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Debian 11 (Bullseye).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Brave Browser on Debian 11 Bullseye

Step 1. Before we install any software, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install apt-transport-https

Step 2. Installing Brave Browser on Debian 11.

Now we import the Brave GPG key:

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

Next, add the Brave repository to your system:

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

The final step, install Brave using the following command below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

Step 3. Accessing Brave Browser on Debian.

Once successfully installed, you can run brave in a few different ways. First, while you are in your Debian terminal, you can use the following command:

brave-browser

Alternatively, use the following path on your Debian desktop to open with the path: Activities -> Show Applications -> Brave Web Browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Brave. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Brave web browser on Debian 11 (Bullseye) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Brave website.