Failed to install browsers on ubuntu-latest (GitHub Actions)

[sayurionishi]

This part of the workflow causes an error: (https://playwright.dev/docs/ci-intro)

• name: Install Playwright Browsers
  run: npx playwright install --with-deps

Might be similar to an old issue before -- #30503

Expected behavior
Successful browser installation

Actual behavior

Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
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Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package libicu70 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

Package libasound2 is a virtual package provided by:
  liboss4-salsa-asound2 4.2-build[20](https://github.com/cellanome/live-navigator/actions/runs/11282791729/job/31383746778#step:12:21)20-1ubuntu3
  libasound2t64 1.2.11-1build2 (= 1.2.11-1build2)

E: Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'libicu70' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libffi7
E: Unable to locate package libx[26](https://github.com/cellanome/live-navigator/actions/runs/11282791729/job/31383746778#step:12:27)4-163
Failed to install browsers
Error: Installation process exited with code: 100
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.```

[mxschmitt]

Which Playwright version are you using? It should work in recent/latest ones.

[sayurionishi]

Updating Playwright fixes the issue, closing this ticket. Thank you @mxschmitt 😊