r/debian • u/NePoliticsUser1 • 1d ago

Debian Stable Question Help needed fixing error while updating Debian

A little while ago, I installed the Brave browser through the command line and then I later uninstalled it. However, whenever I use sudo uptdate, it seems to try and still update Brave.

Here is the error message I'm getting. I did edit the https address and to ruin the link so this post doesn't get auto-removed by Reddit.
Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: hhttps://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Error: Failed to parse keyring "/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg" Caused by: 0: Reading "/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg": No such file or directory (os error 2) 1: No such file or directory (os error 2)

I tried re-installing Brave and then removing it and associated dependencies but it didn't seem to work. I apologize if this was answered elsewhere but I am kinda at a loss for what to do.

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u/dkopgerpgdolfg 1d ago

How exactly did you try to remove the repos? Did you remove the relevant entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?

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u/NePoliticsUser1 1d ago

Sorry, I should've said dependencies, not repositories. I used sudo apt autoremove after using:

sudo apt remove --purge brave - browser

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u/dkopgerpgdolfg 1d ago

Sorry, I should've said dependencies, not repositories.

The error message in OP is clearly about repositories.

I don't understand what you want now.

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u/NePoliticsUser1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was hoping to remove the attempts to update Brave. How can I access /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ do remove relevant entries? I tried using nano but nothing showed up at all and I can't seem to find them with a file search in text editor.

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u/TechGameGeek_Debian 1d ago

start a konsole.

can you post the commandoutput of:

tree /etc/apt/sources.list.d

maybe you need to install the command tree first by doing s

sudo apt install tree

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u/NePoliticsUser1 1d ago

I was able to find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources using the command. If I remove all the text from the file in nano, will that do the trick or should I delete the file another way.

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u/TechGameGeek_Debian 1d ago

delete the file and do a sudo apt update - the error should then be gone.

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u/NePoliticsUser1 1d ago

The error is gone now. Thank you!

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u/dkopgerpgdolfg 1d ago

You can do it either way. Just deleting the file with "rm" works too (and is imo psychologically more preferrable to leaving an empty useless file)

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u/NePoliticsUser1 1d ago

That worked! Thank you for the help.