[BUG] nix and playwright: install-deps is missing required dependencies

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.25.0
• Operating System: Linux (Debian 11)
• Node.js version: v16.1.0
• Browser: Chromium
• Extra:

➜ hostnamectl                                                                                                                                                                           
   Static hostname: work-machine
   Pretty hostname: work machine
         Icon name: computer-laptop
           Chassis: laptop
        Machine ID: c3a17238f0f0b7f7c73994f3616edc3e
           Boot ID: 87ed44a27c324165a0e5d31e49261133
  Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
            Kernel: Linux 5.12.0-rc7+
      Architecture: x86-64

➜ npx envinfo --preset playwright --markdown
## System:
 - OS: Linux 5.12 Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 11 (bullseye)
 - Memory: 10.78 GB / 46.80 GB
 - Container: Yes
## Binaries:
 - Node: 16.1.0 - /nix/store/2mnn77jly8q0mqaayca5mjfv23f3pks4-bifrost-env/bin/node
 - npm: 7.11.2 - /nix/store/2mnn77jly8q0mqaayca5mjfv23f3pks4-bifrost-env/bin/npm
## Languages:
 - Bash: 5.1.8 - /nix/store/lz9s7v9xxkr3jf4wlah9vw1knmic2nda-bash-interactive-5.1-p8/bin/bash

Describe the bug

Tests are failing with the following error

  140) [Desktop Chrome] › playwright/tests/forms_cms_standard.spec.ts:24:9 › lp-standard cms-generated pages › [140/140] fills and submits form on /resources/workshop-gcp-workshop-2022/

    browserType.launch: 
    ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
    ║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
    ║ Missing libraries:                                   ║
    ║     libgobject-2.0.so.0                              ║
    ║     libglib-2.0.so.0                                 ║
    ║     libnss3.so                                       ║
    ║     libnssutil3.so                                   ║
    ║     libsmime3.so                                     ║
    ║     libnspr4.so                                      ║
    ║     libatk-1.0.so.0                                  ║
    ║     libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0                           ║
    ║     libcups.so.2                                     ║
    ║     libgio-2.0.so.0                                  ║
    ║     libdrm.so.2                                      ║
    ║     libdbus-1.so.3                                   ║
    ║     libexpat.so.1                                    ║
    ║     libxcb.so.1                                      ║
    ║     libxkbcommon.so.0                                ║
    ║     libX11.so.6                                      ║
    ║     libXcomposite.so.1                               ║
    ║     libXdamage.so.1                                  ║
    ║     libXext.so.6                                     ║
    ║     libXfixes.so.3                                   ║
    ║     libXrandr.so.2                                   ║
    ║     libgbm.so.1                                      ║
    ║     libpango-1.0.so.0                                ║
    ║     libcairo.so.2                                    ║
    ║     libasound.so.2                                   ║
    ║     libatspi.so.0                                    ║
    ║     libwayland-client.so.0                           ║
    ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

yet when running npx playwright install-deps, it’s telling me everything’s up-to-date and installed

➜ npx playwright install-deps                                                                                                                                                          
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease                                                                                                                                           
Hit:5 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease                                                                                                                                                
Hit:6 https://deb.beekeeperstudio.io stable InRelease                                                                                                                                                             
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                                                                      
Hit:8 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster InRelease                                                                                                                                                   
Hit:4 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease                                                                                                                                     
Hit:9 http://fai-project.org/download bullseye InRelease                                                                                                                                     
Hit:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease                                                               
Hit:11 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease               
Hit:3 https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt kubernetes-xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libasound2 is already the newest version (1.2.4-1.1).
libatk-bridge2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.38.0-1).
libatspi2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.38.0-4).
libatk1.0-0 is already the newest version (2.36.0-2).
libcairo-gobject2 is already the newest version (1.16.0-5).
libcairo2 is already the newest version (1.16.0-5).
libcups2 is already the newest version (2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2).
libdbus-1-3 is already the newest version (1.12.20-2).
libdbus-glib-1-2 is already the newest version (0.110-6).
libenchant-2-2 is already the newest version (2.2.15-1).
libfontconfig1 is already the newest version (2.13.1-4.2).
fonts-freefont-ttf is already the newest version (20120503-10).
fonts-ipafont-gothic is already the newest version (00303-21).
fonts-liberation is already the newest version (1:1.07.4-11).
fonts-noto-color-emoji is already the newest version (0~20200916-1).
fonts-tlwg-loma-otf is already the newest version (1:0.7.2-1).
fonts-wqy-zenhei is already the newest version (0.9.45-8).
libfreetype6 is already the newest version (2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1).
libatomic1 is already the newest version (10.2.1-6).
libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.42.2+dfsg-1).
libglib2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.66.8-1).
gstreamer1.0-libav is already the newest version (1.18.4-3).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is already the newest version (1.18.4-3).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base is already the newest version (1.18.4-2).
libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 is already the newest version (1.18.4-2).
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 is already the newest version (1.18.4-2).
libgstreamer1.0-0 is already the newest version (1.18.4-2.1).
libgtk-3-0 is already the newest version (3.24.24-4+deb11u2).
libharfbuzz-icu0 is already the newest version (2.7.4-1).
libharfbuzz0b is already the newest version (2.7.4-1).
libhyphen0 is already the newest version (2.8.8-7).
libicu67 is already the newest version (67.1-7).
liblcms2-2 is already the newest version (2.12~rc1-2).
libdrm2 is already the newest version (2.4.104-1).
libepoxy0 is already the newest version (1.5.5-1).
libevdev2 is already the newest version (1.11.0+dfsg-1).
libegl1 is already the newest version (1.3.2-1).
libgles2 is already the newest version (1.3.2-1).
libglx0 is already the newest version (1.3.2-1).
libopengl0 is already the newest version (1.3.2-1).
libgudev-1.0-0 is already the newest version (234-1).
libjpeg62-turbo is already the newest version (1:2.0.6-4).
libmanette-0.2-0 is already the newest version (0.2.5-1).
libnotify4 is already the newest version (0.7.9-3).
libpng16-16 is already the newest version (1.6.37-3).
libproxy1v5 is already the newest version (0.4.17-1).
libsecret-1-0 is already the newest version (0.20.4-2).
libsoup2.4-1 is already the newest version (2.72.0-2).
libwebp6 is already the newest version (0.6.1-2.1).
libwebpdemux2 is already the newest version (0.6.1-2.1).
libx11-6 is already the newest version (2:1.7.2-1).
libx11-xcb1 is already the newest version (2:1.7.2-1).
libxcb-shm0 is already the newest version (1.14-3).
libxcb1 is already the newest version (1.14-3).
libxcomposite1 is already the newest version (1:0.4.5-1).
libxcursor1 is already the newest version (1:1.2.0-2).
libxdamage1 is already the newest version (1:1.1.5-2).
libxext6 is already the newest version (2:1.3.3-1.1).
libxfixes3 is already the newest version (1:5.0.3-2).
libxi6 is already the newest version (2:1.7.10-1).
libxkbcommon0 is already the newest version (1.0.3-2).
libxml2 is already the newest version (2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u2).
libxrandr2 is already the newest version (2:1.5.1-1).
libxrender1 is already the newest version (1:0.9.10-1).
libxslt1.1 is already the newest version (1.1.34-4).
libxtst6 is already the newest version (2:1.2.3-1).
libgbm1 is already the newest version (20.3.5-1).
libnspr4 is already the newest version (2:4.29-1).
libnss3 is already the newest version (2:3.61-1+deb11u2).
libopenjp2-7 is already the newest version (2.4.0-3).
libopus0 is already the newest version (1.3.1-0.1).
libpango-1.0-0 is already the newest version (1.46.2-3).
libpangocairo-1.0-0 is already the newest version (1.46.2-3).
fonts-unifont is already the newest version (1:13.0.06-1).
libwayland-client0 is already the newest version (1.18.0-2~exp1.1).
libwayland-egl1 is already the newest version (1.18.0-2~exp1.1).
libwayland-server0 is already the newest version (1.18.0-2~exp1.1).
libwoff1 is already the newest version (1.0.2-1+b1).
xfonts-cyrillic is already the newest version (1:1.0.5).
xfonts-scalable is already the newest version (1:1.0.3-1.2).
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good is already the newest version (1.18.4-2+deb11u1).
xvfb is already the newest version (2:1.20.11-1+deb11u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.

Here’s my playwright.config.ts

import { devices, PlaywrightTestConfig } from "@playwright/test";

const config: PlaywrightTestConfig = {
    forbidOnly: Boolean(process.env.CI),
    reporter: "list",
    fullyParallel: true,
    workers: 4,
    maxFailures: process.env.CI ? 10 : undefined,
    use: {
        trace: "on-first-retry",
        viewport: { width: 1440, height: 720 },
    },
    outputDir: "./playwright-test-results",
    projects: [
        {
            name: "Desktop Chrome",
            use: {
                ...devices["Desktop Chrome"],
                browserName: "chromium",
            },
        },
    ],
};

export default config;

Ideally install-deps should be installing those missing deps, and I don’t need to manually sudo apt install every single one.

[rwoll]

👍 Yeah, I’m not a nix user, but looks like the info in https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/5806 will help (either the code or some community user comments in that PR).

If you’re open to it, feel free to contribute a PR doc page of how to use PW and nix!

[rwoll]

Hid my last comment, as it’s no longer relevant.

one thing that i noticed is that the tests don’t fail with missing deps if I don’t run them in nix-shell. I assume the deps are being installed on my machine, but maybe they also need to be avail in nix?

I’m not a nix user, but it sounds like some interaction with nix and Playwright is not happy. For now, I recommend running outside of nix-shell since that works 😄 .

If you sort out the nix issue, please file a new issue and we can address, otherwise we’ll have to continue recommending running outside nix since I don’t have the expertise to troubleshoot nix.

Thanks!