Brave install possible?(SOLVED)

[gychang]

Is there a sfs or pet possible to get brave browser working in fossapup64? Looked in PPM, puppylinux index page, no joy...

thanks

[01101001b]

Is there a sfs or pet possible to get brave browser working in fossapup64?

Here you can find .pets for Brave and Dissenter. They're made for Dpupbuster64. I guess it's very likely they work in Fossapup64 but honestly I don't know

Your call

Hope it helps!

[mikeslr]

Mike Walsh published a portable back in July, viewtopic.php?p=859#p859. But I don't think it will run OOTB under fossapup for the same reason that versions of other Chromium-Clones wouldn't run: it's 'builtin' libs are older than those fossapup uses. He has since published newer portables which contain alternate 'wrappers' so that they could be used either with fossa or Buster, as well as older puppies.

The alternate wrappers come in to parts: Outside of the 'chrome/or what-have-you' folder is a bash-script named LAUNCH_NL (i.e., no libs) which reads:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Launcher for 'portable' Google Chrome browser
#
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
chown -R spot:spot "$HERE/chrome"
#
"$HERE/chrome/chrome-pup_NL" "$@"

And within the Chrome folder is the chrome-pup_LN bash script, which reads:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper-script to launch Google Chrome browser - Mike Walsh © Jan 2020 (with thanks to Fredx181...)
#
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
#
mkdir "$HERE/spot" 2> /dev/null
mkdir "$HERE/spot/.config" 2> /dev/null
chown -R spot:spot "$HERE/spot"
#
run-as-spot "$HERE/chrome" --user-data-dir=$HERE/spot/.config/google-chrome --disable-infobars "$@"

If you substitute 'brave' --without the quotes-- for 'Chrome' or 'google-chrome' in the above you may be able to use the brave portable under fossa and/or buster. Don't forget to make your bash-scripts executable.

But frankly, I'd recommend that you use Mike Walsh's Ungoogled-Chromium, viewtopic.php?p=11080#p11080 which, unlike Brave, doesn't just steer you away from advertisers the publisher doesn't like to those which it does like; or his Iron, viewtopic.php?p=11119#p11119

[bigpup]

Thanks 01101001b!
Tried the Brave pet from the link you posted. installed it in Fossapup64 9.5
Have not done much with it, but it seems to install and run.

[gychang]

Thanks 01101001b!
Tried the Brave pet from the link you posted. installed it in Fossapup64 9.5
Have not done much with it, but it seems to install and run.

also using it now, browser works well but get this notice regarding sandbox each time, is there anyway to rid of it from being loaded up?

[bigpup]

Are you using this one:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpup/f ... t/download

[666philb]

Thanks 01101001b!
Tried the Brave pet from the link you posted. installed it in Fossapup64 9.5
Have not done much with it, but it seems to install and run.

also using it now, browser works well but get this notice regarding sandbox each time, is there anyway to rid of it from being loaded up?

hi @gychang you can add --test-type to the exec line of the desktop file to get rid of that ie --no-sandbox --test-type
the problem with running it like this is that gmail may not let you login. in which case you will need to set it up to run as spot in menu>>system>>login and security manager

[gychang]

Are you using this one:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dpup/f ... t/download

using the nightly "root" version...

[bigpup]

The one I posted is suppose to be setup to run as spot.
I am not getting any messages when it boots.
Notice spot in the name of the pet package.
brave_browser_nightly_user_Spot-1.20.13-x86_64.pet