Debug tip: Errors when running on Linux

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Missing libraries

On Linux some libraries are assumed to be in place before BSI is started.
If they are not an error similar to below will cause BSI to fail.

error: QSEoW APP: Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/home/goran/code/butler-sheet-icons/src/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-991974/chrome-linux/chrome: 
error while loading shared libraries: libgbm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

For example, libgbm.so.1 and libasound.so.2 seem to be missing on out-of-the-box Ubuntu 20.04 servers.

Solution

Install the missing libraries.
For the example above (using Ubuntu):

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libgbm1, libasound2

Repeat for all missing libraries.

More info here.