Run on non-Ubuntu linux distros?

[edeandrea]

It seems that for Linux, Playwright only works on Ubuntu distros (see https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/29559 & https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/19458).

It seems there is somewhat of a workaround to run the Playwright server in Docker (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/26482).

Is there a way to get this to work with the extension? Maybe introducing a dev service rather than assuming that playwright will run on the host machine?

[maxsonaraujo]

Note: It is not a good practice, but it works in Playwright. The best practice is to go to the official repository, download the same version, and compile it on your distribution.

However, there is something that some people do to run using different versions of libraries. I did it and, so far, I haven't had any compatibility problems. Basically, you need to create symbolic links to your libraries.

First, you run playwright install to see which dependencies you need.

Something like this will appear, then just run for the first item on the line:

find /usr/lib64/ -name "libpcre.so*"

The result may look like this:

Then you just need to create the symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1 /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.3

Do this for each dependency and, in the end, run playwright install again.

Another, easier way is to use Distrobox. It works in a container and is integrated with your folders and graphic server (Wayland or X11). You will use it as a Debian subsystem integrated with your machine. For more information, visit Distrobox.

[edeandrea]

Thank you for the info @maxsonaraujo . There are times though that we don't have control over the server that we are running on. That I think is the opportunity something like a dev service could play here.

A container that runs beside the app at test time, rather than on the host machine itself.