Unable to locate package brave-browser on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (lubuntu)
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I got the same message. You can install it as a snap program...
sudo snap install brave
Do you get an error message...sudo: snap: command not found
You have to install snapd not snap:
sudo apt-get install snapd
Then repeat the sudo snap install brave command
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Internet User over 1 year
Trying to install the Brave web browser, I ultimately arrive at the error, "Unable to locate package brave-browser". How should I proceed?
Here is my LXTerminal output:
username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ curl https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key add - [sudo] password for username: Command 'curl' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install curl Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for username: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for username: sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ sudo apt install curl [sudo] password for username: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: alsa-base cpp-5 evolution-data-server-online-accounts gksu gnupg-agent gtk3-engines-unico gvfs-bin ibus-mozc libaccounts-qt5-1 libavfilter-ffmpeg5 libavresample-ffmpeg2 libboost-filesystem1.58.0 libboost-filesystem1.65.1 libboost-system1.58.0 libcapnp-0.5.3 libcapnp-0.6.1 libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libchromaprint0 libestools2.4 libfcitx-qt0 libgcr-3-common libgksu2-0 libglu1-mesa libgmime-2.6-0 libgnome-desktop-3-12 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgrilo-0.2-1 libgtkglext1 libgtop-2.0-10 libgweather-3-6 libido3-0.1-0 libisl15 libjasper1 libllvm3.8 libllvm4.0 libllvm5.0 libmimic0 libmirclient9 libmircommon5 libmircommon7 libmircore1 libmirprotobuf3 libmpfr4 libnm-gtk-common libopencv-calib3d2.4v5 libopencv-contrib2.4v5 libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-features2d2.4v5 libopencv-flann2.4v5 libopencv-highgui2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libopencv-legacy2.4v5 libopencv-ml2.4v5 libopencv-objdetect2.4v5 libopencv-video2.4v5 libpoppler58 libprotobuf-lite10 libprotobuf-lite9v5 libprotobuf9v5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 librhythmbox-core9 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1 libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt5-1 libsodium18 libsrtp0 libtbb2 libvte-common libvte9 libwebpdemux1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 libwildmidi1 libxfont1 linux-headers-4.4.0-101 linux-headers-4.4.0-101-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-112 linux-headers-4.4.0-112-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-21 linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-93 linux-headers-4.4.0-93-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-96 linux-headers-4.4.0-96-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-97 linux-headers-4.4.0-97-generic linux-image-4.4.0-101-generic linux-image-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-93-generic linux-image-4.4.0-96-generic linux-image-4.4.0-97-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-101-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-93-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-96-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-97-generic linux-sound-base lubuntu-artwork-16-04 python-appindicator signon-plugin-password signon-ui signon-ui-service signon-ui-x11 signond x11-apps x11-session-utils xchat-gnome-common xinit xorg Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libcurl4 The following packages will be REMOVED: libcurl3 The following NEW packages will be installed: curl libcurl4 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 400 kB of archives. After this operation, 391 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 libcurl4 i386 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3 [238 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 curl i386 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3 [162 kB] Fetched 400 kB in 1s (791 kB/s) (Reading database ... 370863 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libcurl3:i386 (7.58.0-2ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libcurl4:i386. (Reading database ... 370857 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libcurl4_7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3_i386.deb ... Unpacking libcurl4:i386 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package curl. Preparing to unpack .../curl_7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3_i386.deb ... Unpacking curl (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3) ... Setting up libcurl4:i386 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ... Setting up curl (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.3) ... username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ curl https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key add - % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 4715 100 4715 0 0 8946 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 8929 OK username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-`lsb_release -sc`.list deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bionic main username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Get:4 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com bionic InRelease [2,825 B] Get:5 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com bionic/main amd64 Packages [1,521 B] Fetched 176 kB in 2s (114 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ sudo apt install brave-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package brave-browser username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ curl https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key add - % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 4715 100 4715 0 0 6371 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 6363 OK username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ `lsb_release -sc` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-`lsb_release -sc`.list deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bionic main username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Hit:3 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com bionic InRelease Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Fetched 172 kB in 1s (162 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-i386.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-i386.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-bionic.list:2 username@username-Latitude-D620:~$ sudo apt install brave-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package brave-browser username@username-Latitude-D620:~$It may be worth noting that I had errors upgrading from lubuntu 16:
Could not install 'doc-base': installed doc-base package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
at the end of the upgrade, "Could not install the upgrades": The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg -configure -a).
However, despite #2, the upgrade seemed to be successful, and fixed a splash page visual error: Before upgrading to lubuntu 18 LTS I installed upgrades to lubuntu 16 LTS after not using the laptop for about a year; it caused the 5-dots loading screen's dots graphic to remain after logging in. Restarting the computer after this supposedly-failed upgrade to 18, this problem was resolved.
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N0rbert over 5 yearsAbout curl part you can rewrite the install command to usewget. The command will bewget https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc -O - | | sudo apt-key add -. -
N0rbert over 5 yearsAlso it seems that you have not enabled universe repository. Do it with askubuntu.com/questions/148638/… .
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Internet User over 5 years@N0rbert, see screenshot at this additional question; it appears the universe reporsitory is enabled: askubuntu.com/questions/1085366/…
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N0rbert over 5 yearsPlease fix all issues and after then, update your question with current error output of
apt-get updateandapt-get upgrade. -
Organic Marble over 4 yearsPerforming the suggestedautoremovewould, at a minimum, reduce the amount of output you get. Do you really need 8 old kernels?