content/posts/Revert-Brave-Flatpak-To-Deb.md


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---
title: "Revert Brave Flatpak to Deb"
date: 2023-11-30T23:24:41+01:00
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---

Hi there,

I switched to Linuxmint Debian Edition 6 (LMDE6) and thought: why install Bravebrowser via Apt-Repo, when I could use the integrated Flatpak Store. The Problem that I encounterd was, that the Brave Flatpak doesn't seem to can access my KeepassXC via Addon because of the Flatpak restrictions.

So I tried this Fix https://www.vastactive.com/posts/keepassxc-firefox-flatpak/ which didn't seem to work for me. 

So I am going another route, by moving my appdata dir where the .deb Version would look for.

First I create backups via [rsync-time-backup](https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup). 

Then I move the folder 
```bash
~/.var/app/com.brave.Browser/config/BraveSoftware
```
 to 
```bash
~/.config/
```

After that I uninstall the Flatpak version of Brave via 
```bash
flatpak uninstall com.brave.Browser
``` 

Now let's reinstall Brave via apt Package-Manager:

```bash
sudo apt install curl

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

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser
```