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

[David Chmelik]

Lately I download .deb on GUI WWW and usually need download manager to 
resume: these days GitHub (GH) is even occasionally inaccessible and 
commonly timeouts/restricted for large WWW downloads.  I SlackBuild 
brave-browser but then brave-browser-the-latest refuses to try saying 
'incompatible': logic semi-error because would replace, not run same 
time... irrelevant.  Should be option for same package name to replace: 
I want to run brave-browser-the-latest every time in case GH allows 
command-line downloads again, and either replace or rebuild manually.  
Another option is if you can document where we can put .deb for 
brave-browser-the-latest, like standard for sbopkg is /var/cache/sbopkg, 
sbotools /usr/sbo/distfiles: I put sourcecode in each all the time so 
they immediately build rather than downloading (I sometimes even 
decompress slackbuilds-current-ymd.n.tar.gz into proper place to use 
without necessarily needing to synchronise (due to same issue).

On 8/15/25 4:30 AM, Antonio Leal via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
>
> I'm the culprit author of the brave-browser-the-latest script :-)
>
> This script exists because I want to have my browser updated 
> immediately and not wait for SlackBuilds merge.
>
>  I read two issues described in the thread:
>
> 1) Prevent running the script if brave if the regular brave SlackBuild 
> is installed.
>
> 2) "/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./"
>
>         Check if the deb file was correctly downloaded
>
> Maybe the README could also be improved
>
> Anyway I know other slackers are running it from the feedback I got.
>
> Thanks for using it and for the report. I'll certainly have a look at it.
>
>
> On 8/15/25 07:57, David Chmelik wrote:
>> 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.