[Feature] Support CentOS

[udit0802]

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Hey everybody!

There's now an experimental support for all linux distributions using our browser container image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright.
If you can run this container image on your linux distribution, then you can instruct @playwright/test to connect to it and run browsers inside the container.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think here: #26482

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We have our CI machines setup on centos7.
I am trying to integrate in our integration tests which runs on jenkins on centos machines.
Able to run tests using chrome but facing issues with following browsers:

Chromium :

<launching> /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=ImprovedCookieControls,LazyFrameLoading,GlobalMediaControls,DestroyProfileOnBrowserClose,MediaRouter --allow-pre-commit-input --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --no-service-autorun --user-data-dir=/tmp/playwright_chromiumdev_profile-GyWOJw --remote-debugging-pipe --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio --blink-settings=primaryHoverType=2,availableHoverTypes=2,primaryPointerType=4,availablePointerTypes=4 --no-sandbox --no-startup-window
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z]     <launched> pid=20094
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z]     [pid=20094][err] /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /home/centos/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-920619/chrome-linux/chrome)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z]     [pid=20094] <process did exit: exitCode=1, signal=null>
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.123Z]     [pid=20094] starting temporary directories cleanup

This issue was earlier reported on 1.

Edge :

browserType.launch: Chromium distribution 'msedge' is not supported on linux
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z] 
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z]         at Object._baseTest.extend.browser.scope [as fn] (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/index.js:127:40)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.120Z]         at Fixture.setup (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:73:73)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at FixtureRunner.setupFixtureForRegistration (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:312:5)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at FixtureRunner.resolveParametersAndRunHookOrTest (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:297:23)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at WorkerRunner._runTestWithBeforeHooks (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/workerRunner.js:449:7)

Issue reported earlier on 2

Webkit:

browserType.launch: Host system is missing dependencies!
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] 
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]       Install missing packages with:
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] 
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]       Missing libraries we didn't find packages for:
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libnotify.so.4
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libopus.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libharfbuzz-icu.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgcrypt.so.20
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstapp-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstbase-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgsttag-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstvideo-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstgl-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libgstfft-1.0.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libjpeg.so.8
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libpng16.so.16
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libopenjp2.so.7
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libwebpdemux.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libwebp.so.6
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libenchant.so.1
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libsecret-1.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libhyphen.so.0
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libicui18n.so.66
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libicuuc.so.66
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libevdev.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]           libGLESv2.so.2
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] 
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z] 
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at Object._baseTest.extend.browser.scope [as fn] (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/index.js:127:40)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at Fixture.setup (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:73:73)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at FixtureRunner.setupFixtureForRegistration (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:312:5)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at FixtureRunner.resolveParametersAndRunHookOrTest (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/fixtures.js:297:23)
[2021-09-28T13:04:55.121Z]         at WorkerRunner._runTestWithBeforeHooks (/apps/jnkn/workspace/EvergreenShoots-CMgt_PR-1560/main/integration-tests/playwright-e2e/node_modules/@playwright/test/lib/test/workerRunner.js:449:7)

Issue reported earlier on 3

As many organizations like ours uses centos machines as their infrastructure, this feature will have a wider impact and will help many developers.
Request playwright team to have a look at this request.

Thanks!!

[kumaraditya303]

Fyi, I have got chromium and firefox working on CentOS 8 and created a dockerfile here https://github.com/kumaraditya303/playwright-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile only WebKit is not working.
Linking #6219

[udit0802]

https://github.com/kumaraditya303/playwright-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile

Awesome but, i was expecting OOTB support for the same.

[jasonparallel]

GLIBC_2.18 ticket for chromium https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1253967&q=glibc&can=2

[ghost]

+1 , we would like using Playwright on our production server, it runs CentOS 8

[andrewvc]

+1 as well

[paulovpereira]

+1 on this request

[MDSemetis]

+1 as well

[paulovpereira]

Seems like Chromium has a fix according to this comment: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1261617#c49

[y-chen]

+1

[FreezeSoul]

+1

[bbhxwl]

+1
chromium-930007 ./chrome: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by ./chrome)

[bbhxwl]

+10

[aslushnikov]

For the record: only issue upvoting counts as a vote

[canfeng11]

+10

[anastasiyamazheika]

+1

[rinogo]

What version(s) should we revert to for CentOS support? We were previously using ^1.9.2 successfully on our CentOS machine. When we updated to ^1.18.1, we started having problems. I see that @vigneshshanmugam reverted to 1.14.0. Will that enable us to use chrome on CentOS?

[andrewvc]

@rinogo I think you may be confused between the versioning of https://github.com/elastic/synthetics which uses playwright and this repo which is for the playwright project itself. We have resolved our issue by moving our base image to Ubuntu FWIW.

[rinogo]

Thanks for your feedback, @andrewvc ! I was referring to this; maybe I'm misunderstanding, though!

Regardless, our environment is unfortunately not containerized, so switching platforms is a lot more challenging. Hoping something can come of this for us and the community - lots of legacy CentOS-hosted apps are still out there!

If I find some other kind of workaround, I'll post back here.

[ECIAP]

+1

[azarudeena]

++1

[tranngoclam]

+1

[baiyyee]

+1

[jasonparallel]

@aslushnikov The recent move to node 18 broke centos 7 support. Was this intentional? See nodejs/node#43246

[aslushnikov]

@jasonparallel we never supported CentOS, so i'm not sure what broke exactly. The move to node 18 was since 18 is the current LTS.

[yesid-lopez]

+1

[DexterIA]

+1 CentoOS support needed for our CI

[gskierk]

+1

[dulestar]

+1

[tustman]

+1 for centos

[vasthan]

+1

[Johnson-You]

+1

[aslushnikov]

Hey everybody!

There's now an experimental support for all linux distributions using our browser container image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright.
If you can run this container image on your linux distribution, then you can instruct @playwright/test to connect to it and run browsers inside the container.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think here: #26482

[jonasz9]

+1

[abinba]

+1

[tov324]

+1

[1ManSmoking]

Managed to run playwright 1.39.0 on CentOs 7 with firefox browser by building glibc-2.28 from sources, patchelf and adding some missing libraries.
But chromium (also patched with patchelf) fails -
PlaywrightException: Failed to read message from driver, pipe closed.

Guess its some kind of driver issue.
Did anyone do something similar and can assist?
Thanks a lot!

[Knowledge-Labz]

Heads up, since the solution quoted in here installs a static version, turns out we could make playwright with chromium work without a problem on our Rocky8 servers with a simplification of @kumaraditya303 fantastic answer! This command replaces playwright install-deps .

dnf install -y alsa-lib \
at-spi2-atk \
at-spi2-core \
atk \
bash \
cairo \
cups-libs \
dbus-libs \
expat \
flac-libs \
gdk-pixbuf2 \
glib2 \
glibc \
gtk3 \
libX11 \
libXcomposite \
libXdamage \
libXext \
libXfixes \
libXrandr \
libXtst \
libcanberra-gtk3 \
libdrm \
libgcc \
libstdc++ \
libxcb \
libxkbcommon \
libxshmfence \
libxslt \
mesa-libgbm \
nspr \
nss \
nss-util \
pango \
policycoreutils \
policycoreutils-python-utils \
zlib

[chrisdavies]

To add to @Knowledge-Labz answer, I had to also install dbus-glib in order for Firefox to work (on Fedora).

[mario16]

Heads up, since the solution quoted in here installs a static version, turns out we could make playwright with chromium work without a problem on our Rocky8 servers with a simplification of @kumaraditya303 fantastic answer! This command replaces playwright install-deps .

dnf install -y alsa-lib \ at-spi2-atk \ at-spi2-core \ atk \ bash \ cairo \ cups-libs \ dbus-libs \ expat \ flac-libs \ gdk-pixbuf2 \ glib2 \ glibc \ gtk3 \ libX11 \ libXcomposite \ libXdamage \ libXext \ libXfixes \ libXrandr \ libXtst \ libcanberra-gtk3 \ libdrm \ libgcc \ libstdc++ \ libxcb \ libxkbcommon \ libxshmfence \ libxslt \ mesa-libgbm \ nspr \ nss \ nss-util \ pango \ policycoreutils \ policycoreutils-python-utils \ zlib

This works for an Amazon Linux 2 image on AWS (with yum package manager instead of dnf).
Thanks!

[hafiz031]

I tried running my scrapy-playwright project and faced similar issue. I managed to run my project in CentOS 7 by dockarising it under Ubuntu 20.04 base image. I could not use Ubuntu 22.04 (current latest LTS) due to the following error: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ...

[yeyuchen198]

真是可惜官方不支持Cent OS，虽然网上有一些魔法可以使用，但也多多少少有些问题。
最后我还是用Docker算了：docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.32.0-focal
亲测这个镜像可以正常使用，但是有些镜像是坏的！

注意：不要使用docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.40.0-jammy
实际测试，这个镜像是坏的，里面没有playwright，连pip install xxx也报错！！！
千万不要安装这个镜像！！！！！！

[bbhxwl]

真是可惜官方不支持Cent OS，虽然网上有一些魔法可以使用，但也多多少少有些问题。 最后我还是用Docker算了：docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.32.0-focal 亲测这个镜像可以正常使用，但是有些镜像是坏的！

注意：不要使用docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.40.0-jammy 实际测试，这个镜像是坏的，里面没有playwright，连pip install xxx也报错！！！ 千万不要安装这个镜像！！！！！！

我一直不能在docker 里面运行，不知道为什么。

[sksharma0]

I was having issues with using playwright on aws lambda inside a centos python docker image, was able to solve with the help of @kumaraditya303 using below dockerfile:
https://github.com/sksharma0/playwright-on-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile
putting it here for reference