How to Install Latest Brave Browser release version in Centos 7 (also works for FreeBSD`s Centos 7 Linuxulator)

How to Install Latest Brave Browser release version in Centos 7 (also works for FreeBSD`s Centos 7 Linuxulator)

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.15.74/brave-browser-1.15.74-1.x86_64.rpm (Latest release rpm)



https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v0.62.51/brave-browser-0.62.51-1.x86_64.rpm (Install this one using yum, it will install all dependencies of brave for the future versions)

yum install brave-browser-0.62.51-1.x86_64.rpm

then remove it using yum remove brave-browser   (since this is an old version and we don`t use it.)

install the newer one

rpm -ivh brave-browser-1.15.74-1.x86_64.rpm --nodeps

install newer glibc

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.18.tar.gz
tar zxvf glibc-2.18.tar.gz
cd glibc-2.18
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.18
make -j4
make install

Its very important that you use another prefix then using the default one because we don`t want to overwrite system glibc.

install patchelf using yum

yum install patchelf


and patch the binary

the latest release version has the brave binary located at /opt/brave.com/brave/brave



if you run it without patching the binary, it will throw an error "/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found"

This is the very same procedure in centos 7, it does`t matter if you use FreeBSD or not. You better use FreeBSD of course, you should.

Lets patch it

patchelf --set-interpreter /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --set-rpath /opt/glibc-2.18/lib:/usr/lib64 /opt/brave.com/brave/brave

And now it will work.