[Question] Support for CentOS

[64chevy]

Asked about this few days ago but someone closed it down. Any idea or is there hope of using Playwright on CentOS anytime soon?

[yury-s]

There are no immediate plans to support CentOS.

However, some of the scenarios might work if you manage to install missing libraries that are printed out when browser launch fails. Since the package names are different from Ubuntu you could use https://pkgs.org/ to find out which package provides each of the libraries and then do yum install. I managed to run some of the tests in Chromium using centos:8 docker image, it required xvfb-run even in headless mode: xvfb-run node run.js.

[64chevy]

These are the missing libraries. Most of them are not in CentOS 7. Anything else I can try?

      libnotify.so.4
      libvpx.so.6
      libopus.so.0
      libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
      libharfbuzz-icu.so.0
      libgcrypt.so.20
      libgstapp-1.0.so.0
      libgstbase-1.0.so.0
      libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
      libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0
      libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
      libgsttag-1.0.so.0
      libgstvideo-1.0.so.0
      libgstgl-1.0.so.0
      libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0
      libgstfft-1.0.so.0
      libjpeg.so.8
      libpng16.so.16
      libwebpdemux.so.2
      libwebp.so.6
      libenchant.so.1
      libsecret-1.so.0
      libhyphen.so.0
      libicui18n.so.66
      libicuuc.so.66
      libGLESv2.so.2 

Would be great if you can help. I am actually helpless.

[ferrinweb]

I think I have solved this problem, but I am not sure whether it is suitable for the situation you encounter.
The following steps are for reference.

step 1. try yum install xxx to install each dependency such as libnotify.so.4

step 2. try yum install -y atk at-spi2-atk cups-libs libxkbcommon libXcomposite libXdamage libXrandr mesa-libgbm gtk3 to install some other libs.

step 3. try yum install alsa-lib-devel to install libasound.so.2

step 4. try yum install libxshmfence-1.3-2.el8.x86_64 to install libxshmfence.so.1 on centos 8. And yum install libxshmfence-1.2-1.el7.i686 if you are using centos 7. You can find more information about libxshmfence.so.1 in this page

Finally, at least no error will be reported, indicating that some dependencies are missing.

[ferrinweb]

I think I have solved this problem, but I am not sure whether it is suitable for the situation you encounter. The following steps are for reference.

step 1. try yum install xxx to install each dependency such as libnotify.so.4

step 2. try yum install -y atk at-spi2-atk cups-libs libxkbcommon libXcomposite libXdamage libXrandr mesa-libgbm gtk3 to install some other libs.

step 3. try yum install alsa-lib-devel to install libasound.so.2

step 4. try yum install libxshmfence-1.3-2.el8.x86_64 to install libxshmfence.so.1 on centos 8. And yum install libxshmfence-1.2-1.el7.i686 if you are using centos 7. You can find more information about libxshmfence.so.1 in this page

Finally, at least no error will be reported, indicating that some dependencies are missing.

Yes, it works in my situation.