HI, I have had issue trying to install the Brave browser on my computer running Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon. I tried to do this via the software manager and received the following error:
app/com.brave.browser/x86_64/stable needs a later flat pack version (1.8.2)
There only appeared to be one version of the browser to install through the software manager so I tried to install Brave from their own website. I copied and pasted the command into terminal which seemed to start a process but when it was finished I could find no sign of Brave on the system.
Flat packs are outside my knowledge base but our resident expert will be able to advise you soon. In the meantime, please provide as much info as you can about your computer as it may be a hardware compatibility issue.
Hi Tex, I’m not a Brave user, but technically it might be a software “age” thing. Mint 20 is getting on a little now, first thing you might try is an update to Mint 22?
Looking at my system, the current flatpak version I can see is 1.70.119, I just tried installing it, seems to work fine. Well I say that, it works as expected
You could try installing “snap” and see if that works any better, for me that’s also showing the same version (1.70.119). I’m guessing with browsers and security being what they are, installing v1.8 probably isn’t a good idea anyway, assuming that really is the version on offer.
Flatpak should keep itself in sync with what’s available, but it kinda feels like it’s listing of what’s available might be out of date. Anyone else running Mint able to do a “flatpak search brave” and see what version is available?
I just visited this Forum in Brave, and the first thing is did was complain about a tracker or add on the site that it claims to have blocked. Bringing up FireFox side by side (which doesn’t complain) … as far as I can see it’s blocked nothing.
As far as I’m aware there any no ads or trackers on the page (!)
I’m becoming increasingly wary of all these browser forks that make spectacular claims about privacy.
