[Feature] Use C/C++ package manager like microsoft/vcpkg to manage C/C++ dependency

[loynoir]

Let us know what functionality you'd like to see in Playwright and what your use case is.
Do you think others might benefit from this as well?

Feat
Use C/C++ package manager like microsoft/vcpkg to manage C/C++ dependency

BUG

$ sudo npx playwright install-deps
BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for Ubuntu as a fallback.
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
sh: line 1: apt-get: command not found
Failed to install browser dependencies
Error: Installation process exited with code: 127
$ npm exec -- playwright test
...
    Error: browserType.launch: 
     ...
    ║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
    ║ Missing libraries:    
...

Link

https://playwright.dev/docs/troubleshooting#linux

Linux
Depending on your Linux distribution, you might need to install additional dependencies to run the browsers.
note
Only Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 are officially supported.

Related

• [Feature]: support Arch linux #8100
• feat: add support for "arch" and Arch-like distro to install-deps #21336
• [Feature] install-deps should be more friendly to users of other Linux distros #11122
• [Question] Is Fedora OS supported? #19458
• [Question] webKit dependencies available for fedora 36 ? #14736

[loynoir]

ArchLinux user day 1 on playwright

$ sudo pacman -S gtk3 alsa-lib libxcomposite libxdamage libxrandr fontconfig pango at-spi2-core cairo gdk-pixbuf2 dbus-glib libxcursor 
$ npm exec -- playwright test --project=firefox

Running 2 tests using 2 workers
  2 passed (13.9s)

To open last HTML report run:

  npx playwright show-report

Seems working.

PS: I'm running within devcontainer, so no dependency should be missing.

Dependency List

gtk3 alsa-lib libxcomposite libxdamage libxrandr fontconfig pango at-spi2-core cairo gdk-pixbuf2 dbus-glib libxcursor

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Additional for chromium

nss nspr

[aslushnikov]

@loynoir I'm sorry, but ArchLinux is not currently supported by Playwright. The demand for the OS is tracked in the #8100 - please, upvote that bug to bump it's priority. I'll close this one instead of the earlier one.