Can't install puppeteer on Ubuntu 20.04

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 8.0.0
• Platform / OS version: Ubuntu 20.04.2
• URLs (if applicable):
• Node.js version: 15.12.0

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. npm i puppeteer

What is the expected result?

To install

What happens instead?

0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli   '/snap/node/3790/bin/node',
0 verbose cli   '/home/username/.npm-packages/bin/npm',
0 verbose cli   'i',
0 verbose cli   'puppeteer'
0 verbose cli ]
1 info using npm@7.6.3
2 info using node@v14.16.0
3 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms
4 timing config:load:file:/home/username/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 1ms
5 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 1ms
6 timing config:load:cli Completed in 1ms
7 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
8 timing config:load:file:/home/username/project/srv/docker/scrape-alert/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
9 timing config:load:project Completed in 0ms
10 timing config:load:file:/home/username/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms
12 timing config:load:file:/home/username/.npm-packages/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms
13 timing config:load:global Completed in 0ms
14 timing config:load:cafile Completed in 0ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 1ms
16 timing config:load:setUserAgent Completed in 0ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 6ms
19 verbose npm-session 5659d7bc3b0bc371
20 timing npm:load Completed in 11ms
21 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
22 timing idealTree:init Completed in 51ms
23 timing idealTree:userRequests Completed in 1ms
24 silly idealTree buildDeps
25 silly fetch manifest puppeteer@*
26 verbose shrinkwrap failed to load node_modules/.package-lock.json out of date, updated: node_modules
27 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/puppeteer 13ms (from cache)
28 silly placeDep ROOT puppeteer@8.0.0 OK for: scrape-alert@1.0.0 want: *
29 timing idealTree:#root Completed in 25ms
30 timing idealTree:node_modules/puppeteer Completed in 0ms
31 timing idealTree:buildDeps Completed in 25ms
32 timing idealTree:fixDepFlags Completed in 1ms
33 timing idealTree Completed in 79ms
34 timing reify:loadTrees Completed in 112ms
35 timing reify:diffTrees Completed in 2ms
36 silly reify moves {}
37 timing reify:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
38 timing reify:createSparse Completed in 0ms
39 timing reify:loadBundles Completed in 0ms
40 timing reifyNode:node_modules/puppeteer Completed in 117ms
41 timing reify:unpack Completed in 118ms
42 timing reify:unretire Completed in 0ms
43 timing build:queue Completed in 0ms
44 info run puppeteer@8.0.0 install node_modules/puppeteer node install.js
45 http fetch POST 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm/v1/security/advisories/bulk 381ms
46 timing auditReport:getReport Completed in 382ms
47 timing auditReport:init Completed in 0ms
48 timing reify:audit Completed in 382ms
49 info run puppeteer@8.0.0 install { code: 1, signal: null }
50 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 33ms
51 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
52 timing command:i Completed in 13651ms
53 verbose stack Error: command failed
53 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/username/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/index.js:64:27)
53 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
53 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
53 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5)
54 verbose pkgid puppeteer@8.0.0
55 verbose cwd /home/username/project/srv/docker/scrape-alert
56 verbose Linux 5.8.0-44-generic
57 verbose argv "/snap/node/3790/bin/node" "/home/username/.npm-packages/bin/npm" "i" "puppeteer"
58 verbose node v14.16.0
59 verbose npm  v7.6.3
60 error code 1
61 error path /home/username/project/srv/docker/scrape-alert/node_modules/puppeteer
62 error command failed
63 error command sh -c node install.js
64 verbose exit 1

[mcshaman]

This appears to be related to the snap distribution of node. After installing the NodeSource distro puppeteer installed successfully.

[christian-kreuzberger-dtx]

Same here, installing from NodeSource distro solved it.