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Ubuntu

Trying to install Brave, "Curl: (23) Failure writting output to destination"

natS

8/20/24, 1:17 PM

Just installed Ubuntu, I am a total newbie, I tried installing brave via the official installation instructions for installing Brave on Ubuntu (and Mint and Debian) here: https://brave.com/linux/

But things errored out on the second line. I got to:

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

after installing curl, so really it is the first line having anything to do with Brave at all, and I immediately got a:

curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination

I have been looking around for pre-existing help on line with regards to "curl: (23)" type errors, and basically all the advice was to delete and then update curl by reinstalling it. So I have done that a number of times in different ways now, but it doesn't do anything, I still have the same issue.

As an aside, which of the log files in the var/log directory are the logs written when installing Ubuntu. A few little errors occurred on install and I want to get those logs to see if any of them need fixes or whatnot -- even to just figure out what happened didn't get installed would be nice.

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muru

8/20/24, 1:29 PM

Does the `/usr/share/keyrings/` directory exist?

natS

8/20/24, 1:34 PM

...oh ... it does not appear to I take it I have to make one and curl won't do that on its own? There is a /usr/share/keyring/ directory (i.e. no "s" at the end of keyring) should I use that in the curl command instead, or is that for something else and I would be a crazy maniac to try that with the Brave installation and I should make the keyrings folder insead?

natS

8/20/24, 1:37 PM

Tried doing the original using the singular "keyring" i.e.: sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyring/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg because the usr/share/keyring folder does exist, but this attempt also gives the same "curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination" error

muru

8/20/24, 2:10 PM

The output of `type -a curl` might help

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Ubuntu

natS

8/20/24, 1:48 PM

Apparently using:

curl

and specifying

/usr/bin/curl

are two different things, for reason my dumb n00b brain doesn't understand. Replacing the original (and specified on the proper installation website):

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

with

sudo /usr/bin/curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

I have no idea why that is necessary, or why that wasn't specified in the official instructions

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natS

8/20/24, 1:56 PM

I have checked the /etc/environment it seems to have the normal path listings according to what I am seeing on line so I have no idea why it is having me use snap curl instead of the most recent full version of curl that I installed (and then reinstalled a couple of times as that seemed to be the only advice I could find around for related problems posted on the net, but which never worked.)

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