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Puppeteer doesn't run under WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)

See original GitHub issue

On Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS via WSL (Linux pc-name 4.4.0-43-Microsoft #1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).

Gives this error:

ERROR { Error: kill ESRCH
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:1024:11)
    at process.kill (internal/process.js:183:18)
    at forceKillChrome (/mnt/c/Users/me/code/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:169:19)
    at Function.launch (/mnt/c/Users/me/code/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:144:7)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7) code: 'ESRCH', errno: 'ESRCH', syscall: 'kill' }
ERROR { Error: kill ESRCH
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:1024:11)
    at process.kill (internal/process.js:183:18)
    at forceKillChrome (/mnt/c/Users/me/code/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:169:19)
    at Function.launch (/mnt/c/Users/me/code/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:144:7)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7) code: 'ESRCH', errno: 'ESRCH', syscall: 'kill' }

Have tried:

sudo apt install gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget

… which doesn’t help.

Only other mention I can find of Puppeteer on WSL is https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/290#issuecomment-322964612.

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vielhubercommented, Sep 23, 2019

This works for me:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
       args: [
            '--disable-gpu',
            '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
            '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
            '--no-first-run',
            '--no-sandbox',
            '--no-zygote',
            '--single-process',
       ]
  })

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junminstoragecommented, Jul 14, 2018

The following works for me in latest WSL:

npm install puppeteer
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async() => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({executablePath: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'});
  console.log(await browser.version());
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://google.com');
  await page.screenshot({path: 'google.png'});
  await browser.close();
})();