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Ubuntu - "List of sources not found" error when installing release build

See original GitHub issue

Description

I have users reporting that they’re unable to install release or beta via terminal instructions. When testing, I was also unable to install and received the following errors:

This was tested on a fresh install of both Ubuntu and Brave browser. Note that the errors are thrown after entering the sudo apt update command. @diracdeltas @mbacchi @mihaiplesa

Steps to Reproduce

Open terminal in Ubuntu
Enter install instructions via readthedocs or help center

Actual result:

As screenshot above indicates, errors are thrown after sudo apt update is entered in the terminal

Expected result:

Brave should install

Reproduces how often:

Every time

Brave version (brave://version info)

Release/Beta/Dev

Reproducible on current release:

Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds? Yes

Website problems only:

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

Additional Information

Here is one user report, will dig for others if they would be useful to have: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/9wrtzf/installation_of_brave_release_channel_in_ubuntu/

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

mihaiplesacommented, Nov 14, 2018

That ‘-a’ has to be taken out from tee in the docs.

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srirambvcommented, Jan 2, 2019

Verification passed on

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OS	Linux
Brave	0.59.14 Chromium: 72.0.3626.28 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	997b1040b63bac324e815797ba52be0cd8f616ed-refs/branch-heads/3626@{#461}
OS	Linux
Brave	0.58.18 Chromium: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	15234034d19b85dcd9a03b164ae89d04145d8368-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#897}
OS	Linux