Learn how to – Install Brave Web Browser on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8.
After installation of any Linux distribution, picking the right web browser is a key process to enjoy your internet surfing. How the can I install Brave Web browser on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop machine?. Brave is among the popular web browsers designed for security and speed. Brave can be installed on macOS, Windows, Linux and on mobile devices. Brave comes with a built-in ad blocker that prevents tracking and provides security protection with optimized data and battery performance.
Features of Brave Web Browser
- Fast Browsing – According to its creators, Brave loads pages three times as fast out of the box with nothing to install, learn or manage.
- Search – Choose default search engine – Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo e.t.c
- Easy to switch to Brave – It’s easy to import your settings from your old browser. You can do it during the welcome tour or later through the menus.
- Privacy and Security – Brave fights malware and prevents tracking, keeping your information safe and secure. Clearing of browsing data and a built-in password manager.
- Support your favorite sites with Brave Rewards – with Brave Rewards activated, you can support the content creators you love at the amount that works for you.
- Form autofill which saves you time when working with forms
- Extensions/Plugins – Brave Desktop now supports most of the Chrome extensions in the chrome web store
Install Brave Web Browser on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop
You can either install the stable release of Brave Web browser on CentOS / RHEL Linux Desktop or go with the Beta version if you’re more interested in latest features. The packages for Brave browser are not available on the default CentOS / RHEL 8 repositories. We’ll need to add the Brave repository before doing installation of Brave Browser on CentOS 8 Desktop.
Import repository key:
sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc
Add Brave Browser YUM repository to CentOS 8 Workstation.
sudo dnf -y install dnf-utils
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
The command execution will give an output similar to below.
Adding repo from: https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
Confirm there is a file added to /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_.repo
[brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_]
name=created by dnf config-manager from https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
baseurl=https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
enabled=1
Once the repository has been added, use dnf or yum package manager to install Brave Web Browser on CentOS 8 Desktop.
Then install Brave web browser on Fedora:
sudo dnf install brave-browser
Hit the y key in your keyboard to begin installation of Brave Browser on CentOS 8 Desktop.
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Transaction Summary
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Install 20 Packages
Total download size: 139 M
Installed size: 227 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
For complete installation you should see below output in your terminal.
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Installed:
at-3.1.20-12.el8.x86_64 brave-browser-1.49.120-1.x86_64 brave-keyring-1.10-1.noarch desktop-file-utils-0.23-8.el8.x86_64
emacs-filesystem-1:26.1-7.el8.noarch libX11-xcb-1.6.8-5.el8.x86_64 libdrm-2.4.111-1.el8.x86_64 liberation-fonts-1:2.00.3-7.el8.noarch
liberation-fonts-common-1:2.00.3-7.el8.noarch liberation-mono-fonts-1:2.00.3-7.el8.noarch liberation-sans-fonts-1:2.00.3-7.el8.noarch liberation-serif-fonts-1:2.00.3-7.el8.noarch
libpciaccess-0.14-1.el8.x86_64 libwayland-server-1.19.0-1.el8.x86_64 libxshmfence-1.3-2.el8.x86_64 llvm-libs-14.0.6-1.module+el8.7.0+1080+d88dc670.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-22.1.5-2.el8.x86_64 mesa-vulkan-drivers-22.1.5-2.el8.x86_64 vulkan-loader-1.3.224.0-2.el8.x86_64 xdg-utils-1.1.2-5.el8.noarch
Complete!
To start using Brave Browser on CentOS 8 Workstation, launch it from the command line or graphical interface.
$ brave-browser
### OR ###
$ brave-browser-stable
You’re set for a roll with Brave browser on CentOS 8 Workstation. Check other guides on CentOS 8 available in our website.
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