Package Details: brave-bin 1:1.79.123-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brave-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brave-bin
Description: Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release)
Upstream URL: https://brave.com
Keywords: brave browser
Licenses: BSD, MPL2, custom:chromium
Conflicts: brave
Provides: brave, brave-browser
Submitter: toropisco
Maintainer: brave
Last Packager: brave
Votes: 883
Popularity: 15.99
First Submitted: 2016-04-06 13:16 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-11 16:52 (UTC)

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Required by (10)

Sources (4)

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brave commented on 2025-04-25 13:00 (UTC)

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alosarjos commented on 2024-10-03 14:54 (UTC)

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melvilli commented on 2024-10-03 13:16 (UTC)

Looks like it got flagged out of date? The current release is v1.70.123 released yesterday. Is the author dropping the packaging support or is it just a friendly reminder by the community?

tejohnso commented on 2024-09-16 14:10 (UTC)

wknapik I believe this is related to the complication you were referring to: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Build-configuration

I wonder how broken a completely keyless build would be. Looking at those parameter names, there are a number that seem to be less than critical.

wknapik commented on 2024-09-16 13:08 (UTC)

It's because Brave is not willing to give permission to Arch to distribute a version that they compile.

Let's clarify this a bit. Brave has no issue with binary redistribution/repackaging. However, packages in default Arch repos need to be built from source by Arch maintainers and that's where the complication lies.

To build a fully functional browser, that has access to all external services needed to provide the functionality, a number of secrets are needed at build time. Each of those secrets is tied to expenses, either in infrastructure run by Brave, or in access to paid external services used by the browser. For that reason, while the browser can be built from source by anyone, in practice, to get access to all those services, one needs to use pre-built binaries.

If a way can be found to avoid leaking those secrets, while being included in Arch's default repos, we could have this package in Arch, without having to use AUR.

gothmog123 commented on 2024-09-04 13:18 (UTC)

It's because Brave is not willing to give permission to Arch to distribute a version that they compile.

XxTriviumxX commented on 2024-09-04 13:14 (UTC)

How is this not in the extra repository? Does it need 2346 more votes?

zemog commented on 2024-08-23 21:20 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-23 21:22 (UTC) by zemog)

After installed brave-bin I got:

$ brave
$ MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed

gothmog123 commented on 2024-08-21 15:39 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-21 15:43 (UTC) by gothmog123)

sorry could you add the binary patch to enable vaapi in wayland with amd GPUs?

it's the one from google-chrome-wayland-vulkan

electricprism commented on 2024-08-11 20:45 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-11 20:47 (UTC) by electricprism)

I'm not really sure if anything changed upstream or in the package but the binary /opt/brave-bin/brave/brave is referenced as /opt/brave-bin/brave in /usr/bin/brave on line 25

$brave
/usr/bin/brave: line 25: /opt/brave-bin/brave: Is a directory
/usr/bin/brave: line 25: exec: /opt/brave-bin/brave: cannot execute: Is a directory