[Bug]: Ubuntu 25.10 is not supported due to libicu74 and libxml2 not being available

[Rameenh]

Version

Version 1.58.0-alpha-2026-01-20

Steps to reproduce

1. npm install -D @playwright/test@next
2. npx playwright install --with-deps

Note: outcome does not change if sudo is explicitly used here

Expected behavior

Install browser dependencies for Ubuntu 25.10 successfully

Actual behavior

Fails with this error

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for ubuntu24.04-x64 as a fallback.
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-security InRelease
Hit:2 https://mirror.mwt.me/shiftkey-desktop/deb any InRelease                                                                                                  
Ign:3 https://releases.warp.dev/linux/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                      
Hit:4 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu questing InRelease                               
Hit:5 https://releases.warp.dev/linux/deb stable Release                  
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing InRelease              
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-updates InRelease              
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-backports InRelease            
Hit:10 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu questing InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                              
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'stable/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu questing InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package libxml2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package libicu74
E: Package 'libxml2' has no installation candidate
Failed to install browsers
Error: Installation process exited with code: 100

Additional context

No response

Environment

System:
    OS: Linux 6.17 Ubuntu 25.10 25.10 (Questing Quokka)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
    Memory: 8.65 GB / 14.88 GB
    Container: Yes
  Binaries:
    Node: 25.2.1 - /home/rameen/.nvm/versions/node/v25.2.1/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.22 - /home/rameen/.nvm/versions/node/v25.2.1/bin/yarn
    npm: 11.6.2 - /home/rameen/.nvm/versions/node/v25.2.1/bin/npm
    pnpm: 10.28.1 - /home/rameen/.nvm/versions/node/v25.2.1/bin/pnpm
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.108.1 - /snap/bin/code
  Languages:
    Bash: 5.2.37 - /usr/bin/bash
  npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.58.0-alpha-2026-01-20 => 1.58.0-alpha-2026-01-20

[PaulBernier]

Have a look at #36364

[Rameenh]

Have a look at #36364

Ah you're right, thank you