How To Install Brave Browser on Manjaro 21

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Brave Browser on Manjaro 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Brave is adapted from the Chromium project and runs smoothly on Linux Distributions. One of the most important features of this browser is privacy. It does not track, has a built-in AdBlocker, password manager, etc. The brave reward is one of the great features where you can view private ads, Tip your favorite creators, Contribute monthly to sites, Auto-contribute to sites.

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 through the step-by-step installation of the Brave web browser on a Manjaro 21 (Ornara).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Manjaro 21.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues
• 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 Manjaro 21 Ornara

Step 1. Before running the tutorial below, make sure that our system is up to date:

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 2. Installing Brave Browser on Manjaro 21.

• Install Brave Browser via Snap.

Now we install Snap packages using the following commands:

sudo pacman -S snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

sudo snap install brave

• Install Brave Browser from AUR.

Let’s run the following commands to install yay packages:

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Once yay is installed use it to get Brave browser on Manjaro using the following command:

yay -S brave

Step 3. Accessing Brave Web Browser on Manjaro.

Once successfully installed, you can use the terminal or Desktop Environment Launcher to start a brave web browser on Manjaro:

brave

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