Brewing Brave Browser on Zorin OS

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 2:36pm

Hello,
After upgrading from Zorin Core 17 to Zorin Core 18, I wanted to install Brave browser from the Zorin repo but can't find it in Software and when I run this, it can't be found:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install brave-browser
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease                 
Hit:3 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/apps/ubuntu noble InRelease     
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease               
Hit:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/drivers/ubuntu noble InRelease  
Hit:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/patches/ubuntu noble InRelease  
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease                
Hit:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu noble InRelease   
Hit:9 https://packages.zorinos.com/stable noble InRelease                   
Hit:10 https://packages.zorinos.com/patches noble InRelease
Hit:11 https://packages.zorinos.com/apps noble InRelease
Hit:12 https://packages.zorinos.com/drivers noble InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up-to-date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package brave-browser

List of repos:

Any idea?

Forpli · February 27, 2026, 3:05pm

Follow the guide (release channel installation) for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 3:28pm

Thanks Forpli.
I think I got confused about Zorin default browser: The Buzz around Mozilla's New Terms of Use - #123 by AZorin
I think you can get Brave from Zorin repos only from fresh install, not upgrade from Zorin 17...

Forpli · February 27, 2026, 3:33pm

Hm, maybe it is the package "zorin-os-www-browser" from their launchpad ppa (Zorin OS stable), but I'm not sure. Surely someone else can help you how to install the brave version of Zorin. The guide I linked you doesn't install the adapted Zorin brave browser.

I'm wondering why you don't have it. In Zorin 17.3 also brave browser was the default browser.

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 4:11pm

Thanks Forpli. Oops I think the disussion is now moving away from the original question that is now resolved. @community-moderators , could someone please split this ticket from here Upgrade Core 17 to 18 error messages unsure what to do - #6 by BrewCoffeeAddict ?
From there is it more about installing Zorin version of Brave
Thank you and sorry for the trouble

zabadabadoo · February 27, 2026, 4:21pm

An explanation of that could be that Brave only became the preferred browser in new installs since Z17.3. If you had Firefox via Z17.1 and Z17.2 then that remained default browser in Z17.3. That is the browser I have via that route anyway (and by choice).

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 4:55pm

Yes, I think that make sense since my install was from before Brave became the default.

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 5:21pm

I guess my question was is there a way for older install to get the Zorin version of Brave? I used the Flatpak version in the past which worked fine for me but I saw that Brave don't recommend it here saying that it is not on a par with the deb version: Installing Brave on Linux | Brave
Then if I install the Ubuntu deb version, I am adding a third party repo which might cause me issue for future upgrade. So using the Zorin Brave version sounded easier to me.

Forpli · February 27, 2026, 5:24pm

Zorin also adds a brave repository.

But in Zorin's version of brave browser some settings are disabled by default.

You can also disable them manually
when you follow this guide and do the opposite of what is shown there:

Aravisian · February 27, 2026, 5:38pm

Wish granted.

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 5:40pm

Thank you so much @Aravisian

RealBLAlley · February 27, 2026, 7:49pm

Funny. Removing Brave and all of its support files was the first thing I did after installing 18.

BrewCoffeeAddict · February 27, 2026, 8:04pm

I think I found a way by looking at my other computer which have a fresh install of Zorin OS 18:

1 ) Get the Brave keyrings gpg files from the Brave website: Installing Brave on Linux | Brave

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-nightly-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-nightly.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-nightly-archive-keyring.gpg

2 ) Then create these two files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
a )
brave-browser-release.list

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main

b )
brave-browser-release.list.save

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main

3 ) Then run

sudo apt update & sudo apt install brave-browser

It won't show up as a third party package and from the store it will show as coming from Zorin OS apt:

4 ) To transfers Brave data from Flatpak to Deb:

cp -r ~/.var/app/com.brave.Browser/config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser ~/.config/BraveSoftware/

system · May 28, 2026, 8:05pm

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