[Slackbuilds-users] brave-browser-the-latest broken weeks

[David Chmelik]

On 8/14/25 10:48 PM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> Sometime in last section, if you use X Window System, brave-browser- 
>> installer checks hourly and on new release does popup question if you 
>> want to upgrade. I accepted, and then the popup showed rest of 
>> installation process (directly above) and error message I quoted. 
>> This time it tried to download & install (using Antonio's package's 
>> SlackBuild) aforementioned version. You can see above it looked in 
>> /tmp and tried to install a newer version it tried to make (1.81.135) 
>> than phalange's version (1.81.131) which no one ever said the error 
>> has to do with: clearly doesn't!
>>          I realise there's some confusion having brave-browser and 
>> brave-browser-the-latest on SBo.  I installed 
>> brave-browser-the-latest directly from SBo: don't know anything about 
>> it on LinuxQuestions.
>
> You might want to check the last part of the README
> Brave browser can be installed by "brave-browser-the-latest" or by
> the "brave-browser" Slackbuild. Do not install both at the same time.
>
> if you install from brave-browser, stick with the one provided by SBo, 
> OR if you want to use brave-browser-the-latest, please keep using the 
> one provided from that script and don't mix it with brave-browser.
I know and never said I did otherwise, and explained as such error 
message is solely from brave-browser-the-latest (I do not have another 
brave-browser installed).  It has nothing to do with mixing nor 'tags' 
or other unwarranted or (as if existence of one SlackBuild would make 
another not find something) odd assumptions. Apparently (running 
brave-browser-the-latest  manually) it's another GitHub outage they've 
been inaccessible/restricting to git & curl & wget in areas (reported on 
several times by technology news websites) rather than world wide web 
(WWW) downloads (which even those are completing less these days)... 
brave-browser-the-latest never gets its .deb, and then attempts to make 
package but doesn't check this failed rather than still tries to install it.