chromium version error in path

WWojciech

Hey Playwright creators! 👋

I'm running into a frustrating issue with Playwright and Chromium, and I could really use some help. Here's what's going on:

The Error:

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Error processing batch: 
"errorName": "BrowserLaunchError",
"errorMessage": "Failed to launch browser. Please check the following:
- Try installing the required dependencies by running `npx playwright install --with-deps` (https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers).

The original error is available in the `cause` property. Below is the error received when trying to launch a browser:

browserType.launchPersistentContext: Executable doesn't exist at /home/webapp/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1117/chrome-linux/chrome

The Situation:

Playwright is looking for Chromium in /home/webapp/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1117/chrome-linux/chrome
But I actually have Chromium installed at /home/webapp/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1140/chrome-linux/chrome

My Question:
How the hell can I specify which Chromium version Playwright should use? 🤔

I don't want to specify this in ENV since I want it to work out of the box and use playwright version that it install

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pulling my hair out over here! 😫

Thanks in advance!

10 comments

oondro_k

Hey,

running npx playwright install --with-deps should fix this - it will install the correct version of chrome that playwright expects.

You may also try to update your playwright dependency, chromium-1117 is pretty old, the latest playwright uses chromium-1142

WWojciech

@ondro_k I cannot run this command since I’m running it on AWS EC2 -> elasticbeanstalk which use Fedora underneath

Playwright support only Ubuntu (—with-deps will run apt command underneath - Ubuntu package manager)

Fedora (therefore Amazon Linux 2, uses yum as package manager)

I already installed in other script all packages that are installed with —with-deps flag)

oondro_k

aaah, I see. Can you try to run npx playwright install (without --with-deps)? I tested it on my Fedora and it worked. It still uses ubuntu binaries but it should work fine even on Fedora:

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BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; downloading fallback build for ubuntu20.04-x64.

WWojciech

But I don’t have issue with installing chromium

I have problem that playwright is looking for directory called chromium-1117 (I develop on windows machine and npx plawright install chromium —with-deps download chromium-1117 - I guess it’s the newest version for windows)

And when I run npx playwright install chromium on Linux it will download the newest one for Linux which is chromium-1140

So this is my issue that my playwright code is looking for chromium version that is the newest on windows and not Linux

oondro_k

just to make sure...is your package.json and package-lock.json same on both machines?

WWojciech

Of course… why? @ondro_k

oondro_k

it looks like you're using different playwright versions...if you run npx playwright --version, do you get the same versions on both machines?

oondro_k

I think playwrigh uses same browser version for all OSes...what I would do is to remove node_modules and .cache/ms-playwright/*, then run npm install and then npx playwright install and it should install the same chromium version

WWojciech

I figure out what was the issue - my pipelines - it was “npm I —no-package-lock” which updated node_modules and then I did npx playwright install which installed newer version and my build wanted to use the older

WWojciech

@ondro_k what was exactly what I did the day before you answer 😄 thank you for your help this can be marked as answer

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