Beginners • Why does Brave install on Ubuntu but not RPI OS?

I have a fairly newly acquired RPI5/8GB. I ran Ubuntu 23.x for a while, but realized that it really is resource intensive, so I've gone back to Raspberry Pi OS. All in all, though not as aesthetically pleasing as Ubuntu, it does the job well. My CPU is actually running substantially cooler.

There is one thing that seems odd to me. Pretty much every package I was using on Ubuntu I have installed on RPiOS with no problem. However, I was able to install Brave browser in Ubuntu and it ran fine. As a matter of fact, of the four browsers that I had installed (Brave, Chromium, Firefox and Midori) it was my favorite and seemed to be the best behaved.

If I try installing RPiOS, with SNAP, I get this:

error: snap "brave" is not available on stable for this architecture (armhf) but exists on other architectures (amd64, arm64).

Using apt-get, I get the following results:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
brave-browser:arm64 : Depends: libasound2:arm64 (>= 1.0.17) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libatk-bridge2.0-0:arm64 (>= 2.5.3) but it is not installable
Depends: libatk1.0-0:arm64 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libatspi2.0-0:arm64 (>= 2.9.90) but it is not installable
Depends: libc6:arm64 (>= 2.25) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcairo2:arm64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcups2:arm64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libcurl3-gnutls:arm64 but it is not installable or
libcurl3-nss:arm64 but it is not installable or
libcurl4:arm64 but it is not installable or
libcurl3:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: libdbus-1-3:arm64 (>= 1.9.14) but it is not installable
Depends: libdrm2:arm64 (>= 2.4.75) but it is not installable
Depends: libexpat1:arm64 (>= 2.1~beta3) but it is not installable
Depends: libgbm1:arm64 (>= 17.1.0~rc2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0:arm64 (>= 2.39.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libgtk-3-0:arm64 (>= 3.9.10) but it is not going to be installed or
libgtk-4-1:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: libnspr4:arm64 (>= 2:4.9-2~) but it is not installable
Depends: libnss3:arm64 (>= 2:3.35) but it is not installable
Depends: libpango-1.0-0:arm64 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libvulkan1:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: libx11-6:arm64 (>= 2:1.4.99.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb1:arm64 (>= 1.9.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcomposite1:arm64 (>= 1:0.4.4-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxdamage1:arm64 (>= 1:1.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxext6:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxfixes3:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: libxkbcommon0:arm64 (>= 0.5.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libxrandr2:arm64 but it is not installable
Depends: brave-keyring:arm64 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

As far as I can tell, I have no broken packages actually installed.

So, I can't understand why Brave would run on Ubuntu, but won't install on the same machine under Raspberry Pi OS. It's the same architecture.

Statistics: Posted by AScottC — Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:06 am

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