Remove `sudo` requirement in order to make the action work with act

Hi, I’m trying to run my Playwright GitHub Actions locally in order to generate image snapshots without the issues produced by cross-platform inconsistencies.

To run my actions locally I’m using act, but I’m having a problem because of the lack of sudo support in the ubuntu-latest act image. (the only working one is the complete nektos/act-environments-ubuntu:18.04 image, but it’s 18gb)

This is my action config:

jobs:
  functional-chromium:
    name: Chromium Functional Tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        env:
          RUNNER_TEMP: '/tmp/' # this is needed just to make `act` work
      - uses: microsoft/playwright-github-action@v1
      - uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
      - run: npm run test:functional
        env:
          BROWSER: chromium
          CI: true

Would it be possible to remove sudo from the required executables? Or do you have other alternatives to run this action locally?

[DanJohnstonArmory]

Was this ever worked on? I’m running into the same issue [E2E Tests/e2e] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-github-action' # ref=v1 [E2E Tests/e2e] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/danjohnston/.cache/act/microsoft-playwright-github-action@v1 dst=/actions/ [E2E Tests/e2e] ❗ ::error::Unable to locate executable file: sudo. Please verify either the file path exists or the file can be found within a directory specified by the PATH environment variable. Also check the file mode to verify the file is executable.

[mxschmitt]

This should be fixed with the Playwright CLI, which has a feature integrated of installing the specific browser dependencies: https://playwright.dev/docs/cli#install-system-dependencies