# How to install Brace? **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-to-install-brace/32415 **Category:** Questions **Tags:** software **Created:** 2025-10-29T02:34:57Z **Posts:** 11 ## Post 1 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-29T02:34:57Z This is probably a dumb question, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to install Brace over the new Fedora Workstation install. Can someone please explain how? --- ## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-29T07:38:30Z What’s Brace? Can you link the app? --- ## Post 3 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-29T07:42:40Z I think it’s basically a set of scripts. But I don’t know how to run them properly. Here’s the link: [GitHub - divestedcg/Brace: Toolkit compatible with multiple Linux distros that allows for installation of handpicked applications, along with corresponding configs that have been tuned for reasonable privacy and security.](https://github.com/divestedcg/Brace) (And also here… [Add Brace, a toolkit to enhance privacy/security on Linux](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/add-brace-a-toolkit-to-enhance-privacy-security-on-linux/27298) .) --- ## Post 4 by @any1 — 2025-10-29T14:15:05Z ``` sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm ``` --- ## Post 5 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-29T17:51:26Z Why is someone putting thumbs down on this post? Is there an issue with Brace? It would be much more helpful to reply to the post rather than to just put a thumbs down. --- ## Post 6 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-29T18:00:49Z > [@any1](#): > > ``` > sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm > ``` This code executes with the following output: Repositories loaded. [https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm](https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm) 100% | 8.2 KiB/s | 9.0 KiB | 00m01s Package Arch Version Repository Size Installing: divested-release noarch 20250714-1 @commandline 2.1 KiB Transaction Summary: Installing: 1 package Total size of inbound packages is 9 KiB. Need to download 0 B. After this operation, 2 KiB extra will be used (install 2 KiB, remove 0 B). Is this ok [y/N]: y Running transaction [1/3] Verify package files 100% | 111.0 B/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s [2/3] Prepare transaction 100% | 3.0 B/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s [3/3] Installing divested-release-0:20250714-1.noarch 100% | 7.0 KiB/s | 2.5 KiB | 00m00s Warning: skipped OpenPGP checks for 1 package from repository: @commandline Complete! I’m not sure what to do now though. It doesn’t seem like anything installed. @anon63378630 --- ## Post 7 by @anon63378630 — 2025-10-29T19:34:26Z > [@anon98749087](#): > > I’m not sure what to do now though. > [@Brace toolkit](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brace-toolkit/21827/7): > > @simony no, only the whole thing like: sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20240607-1.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install brace #the next steps are optional but recommended sudo brace-enable-rpmfusion #if you want foss but patent encumbered codecs sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld --allowerasing #to fix hardware video acceleration sudo brace-installer #to install recommended programs sudo brace-supplemental-changes #for additional global changes brac… --- ## Post 8 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-29T21:06:51Z Thanks so much! One of lines seems to have made it so Proton apps won’t launch. I think it was sudo brace-enable-fapolicyd. How can I reverse what this did? Also, it totally wiped all the icons from my system app launcher (gnome). Is this part of the thumbnail vulnerability protection? Or is this a glitch? It would be nice to have icons. --- ## Post 9 by @anon63378630 — 2025-10-29T23:42:37Z > [@anon98749087](#): > > How can I reverse what this did? `sudo systemctl disable fapolicyd --now` > [@anon98749087](#): > > it totally wiped all the icons from my system app launcher hardened\_malloc is currently incompatible with the glycin library used in GNOME 49/Fedora 43 and newer: [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glycin/-/issues/209) Firejail is also incompatible with glycin too currently, although for another reason: [File dialog crashes (gdk-pixbuf2 + glycin + bwrap) · Issue #6906 · netblue30/firejail · GitHub](https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/6906) `sudo firecfg --clean && sudo dnf remove firejail hardened_malloc` --- ## Post 10 by @anon98749087 — 2025-10-30T01:42:50Z thank you. i actually had to just do a fresh system install, so i didn’t get to try these fixes. a couple minutes after posting my question the system removed all app shortcuts from the app launcher and then gave me an authentication error and wouldn’t let me log in. seemed like it was very broken and system reset was the best way to go. not sure if any of that gives you usable info to update any of the scripts to break f43 less. cool project though. hopefully they will upstream some of this stuff. --- ## Post 11 by @anon63378630 — 2025-10-30T02:44:21Z > [@anon98749087](#): > > update any of the scripts to break f43 less it works just fine, I’ve been using F43 for a good two weeks now a re-install should absolutely never be necessary --- ## Post 12 by @redoomed1 — 2025-11-02T03:56:59Z 6 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Anybody using here firejail on Linux Desktop?](/t/anybody-using-here-firejail-on-linux-desktop/11520/22)