Fedora Workstation OS not supported

[bhorsujal]

When I tried to install playwright. It says:

Installation failed.

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for ubuntu20.04-x64 as a fallback.
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
sh: line 1: apt-get: command not found
Failed to install browsers
Error: Installation process exited with code: 127

Unable to initialize playwright.
HTTP error occurred: Client error '404 Not Found' for url 'https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/manifest)'
For more information check: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/404
Failed to retrieve content from https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/manifest)

[brianredbeard]

FYI, the title should probably be updated to mention playwright, since the core issue is not with aider/Fedora itself, but with one of the add-ons.

[brianredbeard]

FYI, tested both in vanilla Fedora 41 as well as inside of toolbx (https://fedoramagazine.org/toolbx-a-developers-new-best-friend/)

⬢ [bharrington@toolbx radius-mac]$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="41 (Toolbx Container Image)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=41
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f41"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 41 (Toolbx Container Image)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f41/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=41
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=41
SUPPORT_END=2025-12-15
VARIANT="Toolbx Container Image"
VARIANT_ID=toolbx
⬢ [bharrington@toolbx radius-mac]$ aider --model=gemini-exp
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Aider v0.81.1
Main model: gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 with diff-fenced edit format
Weak model: gemini/gemini-2.0-flash
Git repo: ../../.git with 3 files
Repo-map: using 4096 tokens, auto refresh
Note: in-chat filenames are always relative to the git working dir, not the current working dir.
Cur working dir: /home/bharrington/Projects/owrt-ptest/net/radius-mac
Git working dir: /home/bharrington/Projects/owrt-ptest
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> /help what version are you running?                                                           

I am running Aider version v0.81.1.                                                             

You can also check the version yourself by running aider --version in your terminal.            

Relevant documentation:                                                                         

 • https://aider.chat/docs/config/options.html                                                  


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[brianredbeard]

Confirmed the scope is just with playright, as is noted in their docs, with a workaround described in playwright#26482

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Aider v0.81.1
Main model: gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 with diff-fenced edit format
Weak model: gemini/gemini-2.0-flash
Git repo: ../../.git with 3 files
Repo-map: using 4096 tokens, auto refresh
Note: in-chat filenames are always relative to the git working dir, not the current working dir.
Cur working dir: /home/bharrington/Projects/owrt-ptest/net/radius-mac
Git working dir: /home/bharrington/Projects/owrt-ptest
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> /web https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/uci                                                                                                   

Scraping https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/uci...
For the best web scraping, install Playwright:

/home/bharrington/.local/share/uv/tools/aider-chat/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed aider-chat[playwright]
/home/bharrington/.local/share/uv/tools/aider-chat/bin/python -m playwright install --with-deps chromium

See https://aider.chat/docs/install/optional.html#enable-playwright for more info.

Install playwright? (Y)es/(N)o [Yes]:                                                                                                                        

Installing: /home/bharrington/.local/share/uv/tools/aider-chat/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed 'aider-chat[playwright]'
                
Installation complete.


Installing: /home/bharrington/.local/share/uv/tools/aider-chat/bin/python -m playwright install --with-deps chromium

Installation failed.

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for ubuntu20.04-x64 as a fallback.
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
sh: line 1: apt-get: command not found
Failed to install browsers
Error: Installation process exited with code: 127

Unable to initialize playwright.
... added to chat.
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[sephib]

Just confirming
That I was able to run Playwright, and aider was able to identify it without any additional configuration