How To Install Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Brave is a free, open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. It is a secure and fast web browser whose base code is very much similar to the Chromium browser. Brave is designed to block ads and website trackers by default and guarantee privacy.

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 a Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
• 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 useror 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 Linux Mint 21 Vanessa

Step 1. Before running the tutorial below, 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 install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget ca-certificates gnupg2

Step 2. Installing Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21.

By default, Brave is not available on the Linux Mint 21 base repository. Now we add the Brave Browser repository to your system using the following command:

echo deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

Next, import the GPG key:

sudo wget -O- https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

Now start by updating the packages list and install Brave Browser stable by using the command below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

Step 3. Accessing Brave Browser on Linux Mint 21.

Once we finish with the installation, we will find Brave Browser in the Mint menu, in the Internet section or you can launch it through the terminal with the help of the command shown below:

brave-browser

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Brave. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the latest version of Brave Browser on the Linux Mint system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Brave website.