[Feature]: Support Ubuntu 24.04 about playwright HOT 15 CLOSED

This will be available in v1.45. Experimental support has been landed on our Canary channel: https://playwright.dev/docs/canary-releases

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We are currently blocked by GitHub Actions, that they add support for it in their runner-images repository: actions/runner-images#9691.

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Same for me, stuck on ubuntu:22.04 for the moment

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I'm stuck with ubuntu 24.04. any one has a workaround maybe?

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ubuntu-24.04 is available now in GitHub Actions

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I have the same issue. Any news on this?

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Hi @WithMarcel, I've made progress with the steps you provided so thank you very much.

I encountered exactly your issue when reaching this point:

For libasound2, I initially attempted to install libasound2t64, only to discover it was already present. Subsequently, I checked liboss4-salsa-asound2, but refrained from installing it as it would entail the removal of over 70 other packages, which was not my intended outcome.

However playwright install --with-deps still continues to complain about libasound2 not being installed, instead of encountering the next round of absent packages that you ran into here:

Proceeding with playwright install --with-deps, I encountered additional absent packages: libvpx7 and libevent-2.1-7. After obtaining and installing them, I was finally able to execute playwright install without encountering any further issues.

Further steps

I proceeded to instead run npx playwright install without --with-deps and I reached the libvpx7 and libevent-2.1.7 missing packages that are mentioned above.

I then installed them manually the same way as the earlier ones by visiting https://packages.ubuntu.com/.

After that point, npx playwright install ran without errors.

Running tests

I am able to run npx playwright test on the example tests generated when you add playwright to a project. 5/6 pass except [webkit] › example.spec.ts:10:5 › get started link fails when trying to click a link.

I'll proceed for now despite this as I'm at least able to test with chromium.

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I encountered a similar issue on Ubuntu 24.04, albeit with a wider range of missing packages: libicu70, libffi7, and libx264-163. To resolve this, I downloaded them from https://packages.ubuntu.com/, specifically for the 22.04 version. While this method isn't advisable due to its deviation from best practices, I managed to install them using apt install ./<package>.deb.

For libasound2, I initially attempted to install libasound2t64, only to discover it was already present. Subsequently, I checked liboss4-salsa-asound2, but refrained from installing it as it would entail the removal of over 70 other packages, which was not my intended outcome.

Proceeding with playwright install --with-deps, I encountered additional absent packages: libvpx7 and libevent-2.1-7. After obtaining and installing them, I was finally able to execute playwright install without encountering any further issues.

It's worth noting that while this workaround worked for me, I don't recommend it universally, nor can I guarantee its seamless functionality for all users. Probably as soon as Ubuntu 24.04 is officially supported, I would try to remove the above packages and reinstall playwright.

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We are currently blocked by GitHub Actions, that they add support for it in their runner-images repository: actions/runner-images#9691.

It seems that there is still a time period before GitHub support 24.04. See here: actions/runner-images#9691 (comment)

It would be great that we can have Ubuntu 24.04 supported in playwright first, then adding a CI test once it supports.

Even a workaround is better than no support. For me, I feel hard when I am switching devices between office, home and my laptop. I have all upgraded them to 24.04, and I have to repeat the above solution 3 times.

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I can run on 24.04 via the UI, or just using the --project firefox flag.

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I'm stuck with ubuntu 24.04. any one has a workaround maybe?

I was able to run it on 23.10 with this advice:
#23296 (comment)

I had to compile libx264-163 from the source code though.

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hi @mxschmitt , do you know when the github issue will be fixed, I encouter the same error when running
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y libxtst6 libnss3 libcups2 libxss1 libxrandr2 libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libgtk-3-0

error:
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package libasound2 is a virtual package provided by:
liboss4-salsa-asound2 4.2-build2020-1ubuntu3
libasound2t64 1.2.11-1build2 (= 1.2.11-1build2)

E: Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate

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wep ya lo arreglaron??

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Hello, it seems that the --install-deps command and playwright has issues getting the packages from what's in the default ubuntu.sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

I updated my ubuntu.sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d to look like this:

Types: deb
URIs: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Suites: noble noble-updates noble-backports
Components: main restricted universe multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
URIs: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Suites: noble-security
Components: main restricted universe multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
URIs: http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/
Suites: focal
Components: main universe
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

This got every dependency to install except libicu70 and libx264-163. Ubuntu 24.04 comes with libicu74 and libx264-164, so libicu70 and libx264-163 can't be installed unless a user reverts to those versions but I don't want to break other things by doing this.

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@mxschmitt please try getting playwright ready for Ubuntu 24.04. Thanks!

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