WSL - Doesn't appear to Install Chromium

[jestrjk]

Using WSL WSL 2 on Windows 10 does not appear to install any browser when I yarn install. I have not tested it on WSL 1.

Running your reference examples results in:

$yarn install
yarn install v1.21.1
[1/4] Resolving packages...
success Already up-to-date.
Done in 0.07s.
() /.../playwright $node main.js 
(node:1704) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Chromium revision is not downloaded. Run "npm install" or "yarn install"
    at CRPlaywright.launchServer (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/crPlaywright.js:87:23)
    at async CRPlaywright.launch (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/crPlaywright.js:64:24)
    at async /home/-/playwright/main.js:4:21
  -- ASYNC --
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:54:23)
    at CRPlaywright.launch (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/crPlaywright.js:64:35)
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:55:31)
    at /home/-/playwright/main.js:4:38
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/main.js:9:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)
  -- ASYNC --
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:54:23)
    at /home/-/playwright/main.js:4:38
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/main.js:9:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11
(node:1704) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:1704) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

// package.json
{
  "name": "playwright",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^13.1.8",
    "playwright": "^0.9.21"
  }
}

// main.ts
const playwright = require('playwright').chromium;  // Or 'firefox' or 'webkit'.

(async () => {
  const browser = await playwright.launch();
  const context = await browser.newContext();
  const page = await context.newPage('http://example.com');
  // other actions...
  await browser.close();
})();

Compiles to

"use strict";
// main.ts
const playwright = require('playwright').chromium; // Or 'firefox' or 'webkit'.
(async () => {
    const browser = await playwright.launch();
    const context = await browser.newContext();
    const page = await context.newPage('http://example.com');
    // other actions...
    await browser.close();
})();

[jestrjk]

Using npm install results in a download of chromium, firefox, webkit, but still errors out on execution with:

$node main.js
(node:1789) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch browser!
/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/.local-chromium/linux-733125/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/Microsoft/playwright/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/processLauncher.js:135:20)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/processLauncher.js:128:65)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:215:7)
    at Interface.close (readline.js:403:8)
    at Socket.onend (readline.js:180:10)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:215:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1184:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21)
  -- ASYNC --
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:54:23)
    at CRPlaywright.launch (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/crPlaywright.js:64:35)
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:55:31)
    at /home/-/playwright/main.js:5:38
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/main.js:10:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)
  -- ASYNC --
    at CRPlaywright.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/helper.js:54:23)
    at /home/-/playwright/main.js:5:38
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/-/playwright/main.js:10:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11
(node:1789) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:1789) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[JoelEinbinder]

Possibly a duplicate of #581

[enjikaka]

I am seeing this on macOS as well. The problem here is Yarn not installing the
browsers; while npm install does.

[Keeady]

For mac OS, running node node_modules/playwright/install.js installed the browsers and resolved my issue. I couldn't run npm because I was in yarn exclusive environment.

[pavelfeldman]

Folding this into #581 and #1085