Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave, Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-13 Thread behmen
>* It adds to web engine monoculture. Doesn't Firefox and it's derivatives contribute to that the most in GNU/Linux distributions? Not defending anything Google btw, fuckem.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave, Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-13 Thread mason
> * It's not free software. Can you please link to some proof of this (such a file with a non-free or missing license)? I have heard the claim that Chromium has files with unclear licensing, but when I looked into it I was unable to find a current example of such a file. > Why do people "need"

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave, Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-13 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
On 1/12/20 8:59 PM, trisquel-users-requ...@listas.trisquel.info wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:14:51 +0100 (CET) > From: airwa...@keemail.me > To: trisquel-users@listas.trisquel.info > Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-12 Thread mason
> Sorry for hijacking this thread but wouldn't Ungoogled Chromium be a > great addition for future Trisquel releases? I think most of the > people that install Brave on Linux distros do so because they need a > chromium-based browser. (for certain addons most likely?) Ungoogled > Chromium would be

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-12 Thread lukeje
That worked, thank you!

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-12 Thread airwaves
Sorry for hijacking this thread but wouldn't Ungoogled Chromium be a great addition for future Trisquel releases? I think most of the people that install Brave on Linux distros do so because they need a chromium-based browser. (for certain addons most likely?) Ungoogled Chromium would be

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread mason
> I am also interested in Brave. Wikipedia says it is licensed > under the Mozilla Public License, which I understand qualifies as > a Libre Software License. Why do you say Brave is proprietary? The binaries they distribute are proprietary.[1] You need to compile the browser

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 1/11/20 9:52 AM, xliang9...@live.cn wrote: > Chromium is still in Debian's main repository. Maybe Debian's guidelines > are looser than FSF's. They are.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread behmen
If I recall correctly isn't Brave browser the one that mines cryptocurrency using your tabs? I don't think that anything proprietary should be used but especially not something like that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread xliang9550
Chromium is still in Debian's main repository. Maybe Debian's guidelines are looser than FSF's.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 1/11/20 8:20 AM, Ignacio Agulló wrote: > I am also interested in Brave. Wikipedia says it is licensed under > the Mozilla Public License, which I understand qualifies as a Libre > Software License. Why do you say Brave is proprietary? Maybe I rejected it because it is based on Chromium

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread Ignacio Agulló
On 11/01/20 13:43, Caleb Herbert wrote: > Brave is proprietary. Though you as a free individual can install > Microsoft Edge on Trisquel, it would be irresponsible of us and > against the project rules to show you how to do it. I am also interested in Brave. Wikipedia says it is licensed

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 1/11/20 3:15 AM, luk...@protonmail.com wrote: > I was attempting to install Brave Browser on Trisquel using the first > set of instructions found here: Brave is proprietary. Though you as a free individual can install Microsoft Edge on Trisquel, it would be irresponsible of us and against the

Re: [Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread xliang9550
As suggested by the error message, just simply delete the file(s) /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

[Trisquel-users] I messed up trying to install Brave Browser, and now can't get any system updates

2020-01-11 Thread lukeje
I was attempting to install Brave Browser on Trisquel using the first set of instructions found here: Not only was I unsuccessful, but I'm unable to get any system updates and Package Manager displays the following message: E: Malformed entry 1 in list file