I guess I’m a bit on in my years and am really doing my best trying to be more careful about internet things, since some of my friends had bad things happen to their emails and bank accounts. I’ve been watching some videos from some gentlemen on the Tiktok app and have managed to get the Linux Cinnamon on my computer. I’m very confused by all of the coding talk to install Brave and was hoping someone could help me.
I did some reading and learned I need to install something called curl, but I’m not sure how to check if it’s the newest one, since everyone said that’s very important. I’m very overwhelmed and would greatly appreciate it if someone could better explain how to do these things. From all the gentlemen I’ve been watching, I’m learning just how important it is to understand how to do these things for myself so I’m not reliant on someone else.
Cinnamon is the program, that manages the window placement and decoration (called Window Manager or WE), so that information does not help much. To be able to help, we would need to know which GNU+linux distribution are you using.
Curl is a program that downloads files from the given web address (URL). If you don’t know what you’re doing, i would stick to installing programs on your system through a program called “package manager” (different GNU+linux distributions use different ones, like apt or pacman) from the official repositories, provided by the distribution. This way you can be sure the package is “approved” by the linux distribution development team and not just something from a random person on the internet, that may be a malicious program.
@TeacupMeCup as the other user said, I would recommend using the built-in package manager that comes with your Operating System in general. For Brave however, if you’d like to dip your toes in just a teeny tiny bit, we’ve made installing Brave on Linux systems very easy if you’d like to try!
On your computer, open the Terminal application
Then open any browser already installed and visit brave.com/linux
Copy the command listed on this page (you can use the copy button)
Paste this into your Terminal window and hit Enter
That should be all you need to do! The rest should take care of itself.