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stub1

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Registered: 2023-11-27

Posts: 2

Reinstalling Brave Browser

I have been trying to reinstall the brave-bin package due to my browser not allowing me to update. When I try to run an update I am prompted with "Brave couldn't update to the latest version so you're missing the latest security fixes.". But I cannot seem to reinstall the package and I am worried about wiping all of my passwords and saved data. Does anyone know what command I could run that would reinstall brave without wiping my data? Thanks!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,365

Re: Reinstalling Brave Browser

The same way you installed it in the first place. What problem are you having, exactly?

stub1

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Registered: 2023-11-27

Posts: 2

Re: Reinstalling Brave Browser

when i run "sudo pacman -S brave-bin" i get " error: target not found: brave-bin
warning: 'brave-bin' is a file, did you mean -U/--upgrade instead of -S/--sync?"
When i run "sudo pacman -U brave-bin" i get "error: could not open file brave-bin: Error reading fd 7
error: 'brave-bin': cannot open package file"

I'm not really sure that is causing the issue.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,365

Re: Reinstalling Brave Browser

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Reinstalling Brave Browser

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Reinstalling Brave Browser

man pacman

will tell you that you need to specify the pathe/filename of the package (ending on pkg.tar.zstd) together withe the -U option. -S will only work if you put your package to a personel local repo, what you obviosly did not do.