How to install Brave & Vivaldi browsers in openSUSE

I’m an avid Firefox user and it has been the browser for me for the ages but due to a recent Firefox bug in openSUSE Tumbleweed, I was in need for a temporary browser alternative. I shortlisted Brave and Vivaldi as decent Firefox placeholders. Sadly, Brave and Vivaldi are not available in the official repositories of openSUSE but installing them is a relatively straightforward and easy process.

Installing Brave on openSUSE

This can be done in a few different ways but here is how I did it,

Create a new file with the name brave-suse.repo in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory,

sudo touch /etc/zypp/repos.d/brave-suse.repo

Next, copy-paste this text snippet into the /etc/zypp/repos.d/brave-suse.repo file,

[brave-browser]
name=brave-browser
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
baseurl=https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/$basearch
type=rpm-md
gpgcheck=1
keeppackages=0

Save the changes made to the file.

Open your favorite terminal emulator and import Brave browser’s repository signing keys,

sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc

And, install Brave browser,

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install brave-browser

Installing Vivaldi on openSUSE

The process of installing Vivaldi browser is going to be very similar to the Brave install process above.

Create a new file with the name vivaldi-suse.repo in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory,

sudo touch /etc/zypp/repos.d/vivaldi-suse.repo

Add the following text snippet into the /etc/zypp/repos.d/vivaldi-suse.repo file,

[vivaldi]
name=vivaldi
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
baseurl=https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/rpm/$basearch
type=rpm-md
keeppackages=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/linux_signing_key.pub

Save the file.

Open a terminal emulator and run the following commands to install Vivaldi browser,

sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
sudo zypper install vivaldi-stable

Hopefully this article will be of help to a soul or two.

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Image courtesy Anna Carol

Date: June 18, 2023

Tags: how-to linux

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