Arch Linux User Repository

2.13.3 has been released. This release has major changes to how linkwarden is built and run. Please backup your database before upgrading.

FYI, 2.12.0 still reports as 2.11.8. Bug has been filed upstream

2.10.0 update ready to go. Might be a good idea to backup your database before upgrading.

There might be. The way they are pulling the dependencies for playwright in docker is not compatible with arch. installing it through yarn was the only way I found, but I'm not an expert with yarn, but yeah that is a great point about it stating failure. I will dig into it further, but it should work now as is.

I have no experience with playwright, but isn't there a way to limit what it needs to pull, such as a config file, or some cli switches? The error suggested that the install failed, so I did not bother to check whether it was in fact working.

Yeah, there are a LOT of playwright dependencies. Its why I stopped adding them after linkwarden was able to function correctly. I have a feeling playwright is able to do much more than linkwarden uses it for, hence all the other deps (one of them is cups, and I am very sure linkwarden isn't using that).

Not opposed to tracking down all the other optional dependencies, but that might have to wait until the weekend when I have more time.

This is the output of playwright

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; downloading fallback build for ubuntu20.04-x64.
Downloading Chromium 127.0.6533.17 (playwright build v1124) from https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/chromium/1124/chromium-linux.zip
161.3 MiB [====================] 100% 0.0s
Chromium 127.0.6533.17 (playwright build v1124) downloaded to /var/lib/linkwarden/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-1124
BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; downloading fallback build for ubuntu20.04-x64.
Downloading FFMPEG playwright build v1009 from https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/ffmpeg/1009/ffmpeg-linux.zip
2.6 MiB [====================] 100% 0.0s
FFMPEG playwright build v1009 downloaded to /var/lib/linkwarden/.cache/ms-playwright/ffmpeg-1009
BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; downloading fallback build for ubuntu20.04-x64.
Downloading Firefox 127.0 (playwright build v1454) from https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/firefox/1454/firefox-ubuntu-20.04.zip
86.6 MiB [====================] 100% 0.0s
Firefox 127.0 (playwright build v1454) downloaded to /var/lib/linkwarden/.cache/ms-playwright/firefox-1454
BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; downloading fallback build for ubuntu20.04-x64.
Downloading Webkit 17.4 (playwright build v2035) from https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/webkit/2035/webkit-ubuntu-20.04.zip
133.2 MiB [====================] 100% 0.0s
Webkit 17.4 (playwright build v2035) downloaded to /var/lib/linkwarden/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-2035
Playwright Host validation warning: 
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
║ Please install them with the following command:      ║
║                                                      ║
║     sudo yarn playwright install-deps                ║
║                                                      ║
║ Alternatively, use apt:                              ║
║     sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-0                  ║
║                                                      ║
║ <3 Playwright Team                                   ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
    at validateDependenciesLinux (/usr/share/webapps/linkwarden/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/dependencies.js:216:9)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async Registry._validateHostRequirements (/usr/share/webapps/linkwarden/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:575:43)
    at async Registry._validateHostRequirementsForExecutableIfNeeded (/usr/share/webapps/linkwarden/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:673:7)
    at async Registry.validateHostRequirementsForExecutablesIfNeeded (/usr/share/webapps/linkwarden/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:662:43)
    at async t.<anonymous> (/usr/share/webapps/linkwarden/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/cli/program.js:119:7)
Done in 26.42s.

And then:

║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
║ Missing libraries:                                   ║
║     libicudata.so.66                                 ║
║     libicui18n.so.66                                 ║
║     libicuuc.so.66                                   ║
║     libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2                             ║
║     libwebp.so.6                                     ║
║     libharfbuzz-icu.so.0                             ║
║     libhyphen.so.0                                   ║
║     libflite.so.1                                    ║
║     libflite_usenglish.so.1                          ║
║     libflite_cmu_grapheme_lang.so.1                  ║
║     libflite_cmu_grapheme_lex.so.1                   ║
║     libflite_cmu_indic_lang.so.1                     ║
║     libflite_cmu_indic_lex.so.1                      ║
║     libflite_cmulex.so.1                             ║
║     libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1                       ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_awb.so.1                         ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1                       ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1                         ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_rms.so.1                         ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_slt.so.1                         ║
║     libpcre.so.3                                     ║
║     libffi.so.7                                      ║
║     libevdev.so.2                                    ║ 

I honestly gave up after that, since there was too much to install, and I'm not even certain there weren't any version mismatches

Updated to latest version and made the home directory/shell changes (excellent suggestions).

As for the dependencies, playwright should have everything that it needs to be used by linkwarden. Linkwarden only uses it to create screenshots/pdf copies of your bookmarks. after the install runs, it should have all the deps needed to do these tasks. Was there a breakage due to the other missing libraries? I stopped adding the rest of the deps as it didn't look like they were needed.

From a technical (and security) point of view, would it not be better to have the user's home point at /var/lib/linkwarden, and not have an interactive shell? Something along

u linkwarden - "linkwarden daemon user" /var/lib/linkwarden /usr/bin/nologin

Also, please include the dependencies needed to run playwright, otherwise it is pretty much a manual install.

Never used that workflow before. Found the issue and will have it patched within the hour. Thanks for pointing this out!

EDIT: Yup, this is what I did. Need to step out for a moment but will have it patched soon.