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[BUG] Webkit browser doesn't run on Ubuntu 20.10

See original GitHub issue

Context:

Playwright Version: 1.5.1
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.10
Node.js version: 14
Browser: WebKit

Describe the bug

WebKit binary fails to run due to missing libicu66 package - Ubuntu 20.10 includes an upgraded libicu67.

[err] /home/anton/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1347/minibrowser-gtk/bin/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.66: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
<process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>

Why such strict version dependency?

Symlinking .so.67 files to .so.66 doesn’t help unfortunately, the failure message becomes:

[err] /home/anton/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1347/minibrowser-gtk/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: /home/anton/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1347/minibrowser-gtk/lib/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so.18: undefined symbol: u_strToUpper_66

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

miraocommented, Jun 5, 2021

I had the same issue in Ubuntu 21.04 (non-LTS) with Playwright 1.11.1/WebKit 1472. Moreover WebKit required libenchant1c2a that is not present in Ubuntu 21.04 repo anymore (it is in Ubuntu 20.04/20.10).

  Missing libraries are:
      libicui18n.so.66
      libicuuc.so.66
      libenchant.so.1

Installation of both DEB packages from Ubuntu 20.04 helped me.

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yury-scommented, Nov 12, 2020

Closing this issues as we are not planning to support non-LTS Ubuntu versions at the moment. Your workaround should fix the problem, I also had to install tzdata which libicu66 seems to depend on.