[REGRESSION]: Pull request #12877 prevents the library from being used on any linux distro that is not Ubuntu

Context:

• GOOD Playwright Version: < 1.21.0 (1.20.2, etc)
• BAD Playwright Version: 1.21.0
• Operating System: Linux
• Extra: while we are using Docker images based on buster slim, this is applicable to any Linux distro that isn’t ubuntu based (debian, possibly arch too)

Code Snippet

Run npx playwright install-deps chrome in a non-ubuntu environment (debian for instance)

Describe the bug

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/12877 was merged in order to “solve” issues related to users of Debian that couldn’t install the required dependencies due to missing packages (usually fonts which can be solved by including the debian non-free source list), however this prevents any users of a Linux distro that is not ubuntu based from using the library.

I believe the PR should be reverted or changed to emit an actual warning instead of a hard error, or a way to ignore the check should be added, as artificially limiting the library just for Ubuntu/Linux Mint users doesn’t sound right.

[aslushnikov]

So this is a debian with an extra sourceList:

echo "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster main non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fonts.list

This one adds the missing ttf-ubuntu-font-family font. Besides this font, all other dependencies are installable for both Chromium & Firefox; both browsers also seem to be functioning well.

[knaitas]

🤦 totally forgot ubuntu released 22 recently… Thanks!!