brave-browser launches the most recent install (.deb packages)

Description

brave-browser launches the most recent install

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Brave-Browser-Dev on Linux
2. Run brave-browser from terminal launches Dev build
3. Install Brave-Browser-Beta after installing Brave-Browser-Dev
4. Run brave-browser from terminal launches Beta build
5. Uninstall Beta from terminal shows updating alternatives which starts to point brave-browser to brave-browser-dev

Actual result:

brave-browser launches the most recent install of Brave(Dev/Beta)

Expected result:

brave-browser should not launch Beta/Dev build, should be specified only for Release build. Only brave-browser-dev should launch Dev build and brave-browser-beta should launch Beta build

Reproduces how often:

Easy

Brave version (chrome://version info)

All Linux version

Reproducible on current release:

N/A for b-l

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Additional Information

[fmarier]

@Techguyprivate did you try the work-around mentioned above?

As the root user:

cd /etc/alternatives/
rm brave-browser
ln -s /opt/brave.com/brave/brave-browser .

[srirambv]

Verification passed by @GeetaSarvadnya on

Brave	0.66.98 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	cd0b15c8b6a4e70c44e27f35c37a4029bad3e3b0-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1033}
OS	Linux