Install this version:
emerge -a =www-client/brave-bin-1.98.63
If this version is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:
autounmask =www-client/brave-bin-1.98.63
Or alternatively:
emerge --autounmask-write -a =www-client/brave-bin-1.98.63
# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=8
CHROMIUM_LANGS="
af am ar az bg bn bs ca cs da de el en-GB es es-419 et fa fi fil fr gu he
hi hr hu id it ja ka kk km kn ko lo lt lv mk ml mn mr ms my nb nl pl pt-BR
pt-PT ro ru si sk sl sq sr sr-Latn sv sw ta te th tr uk ur uz vi zh-CN
zh-TW
"
inherit chromium-2 desktop pax-utils unpacker xdg
DESCRIPTION="Privacy-focused web browser based on Chromium (official binary build)"
HOMEPAGE="https://brave.com/"
SRC_URI="
amd64? ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${PV}/brave-browser_${PV}_amd64.deb )
arm64? ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${PV}/brave-browser_${PV}_arm64.deb )
"
S=${WORKDIR}
# Brave's own code is MPL-2.0, the rest is the Chromium code base.
LICENSE="MPL-2.0 Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 Boost-1.0 CC-BY-3.0 CC-BY-4.0 FTL IJG ISC"
LICENSE+=" LGPL-2 LGPL-2.1 MIT MPL-1.1 Ms-PL SSLeay Unicode-3.0 Unicode-DFS-2015 ZLIB"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~arm64"
IUSE="qt6 selinux"
RESTRICT="bindist mirror strip"
RDEPEND="
>=app-accessibility/at-spi2-core-2.46.0:2
app-crypt/libsecret
app-misc/ca-certificates
dev-libs/expat
dev-libs/glib:2
dev-libs/nspr
>=dev-libs/nss-3.26
media-libs/alsa-lib
media-libs/mesa[gbm(+)]
net-print/cups
sys-apps/dbus
sys-libs/glibc
x11-libs/cairo
x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2
|| (
x11-libs/gtk+:3[X]
gui-libs/gtk:4[X]
)
x11-libs/libdrm
>=x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0
x11-libs/libXcomposite
x11-libs/libXdamage
x11-libs/libXext
x11-libs/libXfixes
x11-libs/libXrandr
x11-libs/libxcb
x11-libs/libxkbcommon
x11-libs/libxshmfence
x11-libs/pango
x11-misc/xdg-utils
qt6? ( dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,widgets] )
selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-chromium )
"
QA_PREBUILT="*"
QA_DESKTOP_FILE="usr/share/applications/.*\\.desktop"
BRAVE_HOME="opt/brave.com/brave"
pkg_pretend() {
# Protect against people using autounmask overzealously
use amd64 || use arm64 || die "${PN} only works on supported architectures (amd64, arm64)."
}
pkg_setup() {
chromium_suid_sandbox_check_kernel_config
}
src_unpack() {
:
}
src_install() {
dodir /
cd "${ED}" || die
unpacker
# Debian cron job and doc directory; only the unversioned one has content.
rm -r etc/cron.daily "${BRAVE_HOME}"/cron || die
rmdir usr/share/doc/brave-browser-stable || die
mv usr/share/doc/brave-browser "usr/share/doc/${PF}" || die
gzip -d "usr/share/doc/${PF}/changelog.gz" || die
gzip -d usr/share/man/man1/brave-browser-stable.1.gz || die
rm usr/share/man/man1/brave-browser.1.gz || die
dosym brave-browser-stable.1 usr/share/man/man1/brave-browser.1
# AppStream data belongs in metainfo
mkdir -p usr/share/metainfo || die
mv usr/share/appdata/brave-browser.appdata.xml usr/share/metainfo/ || die
rmdir usr/share/appdata || die
pushd "${BRAVE_HOME}/locales" >/dev/null || die
chromium_remove_language_paks
popd >/dev/null || die
rm "${BRAVE_HOME}/libqt5_shim.so" || die
if ! use qt6; then
rm "${BRAVE_HOME}/libqt6_shim.so" || die
fi
local size
for size in 16 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
newicon -s ${size} "${BRAVE_HOME}/product_logo_${size}.png" brave-browser.png
done
# Chromium's setuid sandbox helper must be root-owned and mode 4711.
fperms 4711 "/${BRAVE_HOME}/chrome-sandbox"
# Replace the upstream symlink with a wrapper that honours
# ~/.config/brave-flags.conf; the desktop files already Exec it.
rm usr/bin/brave-browser-stable || die
exeinto /usr/bin
doexe "${FILESDIR}/brave-browser-stable"
dosym brave-browser-stable /usr/bin/brave-browser
dosym brave-browser-stable /usr/bin/brave
pax-mark m "${BRAVE_HOME}/brave"
}
pkg_postinst() {
xdg_pkg_postinst
elog "Brave reads extra command-line flags from"
elog " \${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/brave-flags.conf"
elog "(whitespace-separated; lines starting with '#' are comments), e.g."
elog " --ozone-platform-hint=auto"
elog "The setuid chrome-sandbox needs USER_NS/PID_NS/NET_NS/SECCOMP in the kernel."
}
Manage flags for this package:
euse -i <flag> -p www-client/brave-bin |
euse -E <flag> -p www-client/brave-bin |
euse -D <flag> -p www-client/brave-bin
>=app-accessibility/at-spi2-core-2.46.0:2 app-crypt/libsecret app-misc/ca-certificates dev-libs/expat dev-libs/glib:2 dev-libs/nspr >=dev-libs/nss-3.26 media-libs/alsa-lib media-libs/mesa[gbm(+)] net-print/cups sys-apps/dbus sys-libs/glibc x11-libs/cairo x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2 || ( x11-libs/gtk+:3[X] gui-libs/gtk:4[X] ) x11-libs/libdrm >=x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0 x11-libs/libXcomposite x11-libs/libXdamage x11-libs/libXext x11-libs/libXfixes x11-libs/libXrandr x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libxkbcommon x11-libs/libxshmfence x11-libs/pango x11-misc/xdg-utils qt6? ( dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,widgets] ) selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-chromium )
| Type | File | Size | Source URLs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIST | brave-browser_1.98.63_amd64.deb | 153131276 bytes | https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.98.63/brave-browser_1.98.63_amd64.deb |
| DIST | brave-browser_1.98.63_arm64.deb | 144082044 bytes | https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.98.63/brave-browser_1.98.63_arm64.deb |