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To add detail to Phi11ip's comment: the root cause is that pkgver() calls npm view playwright version at build time, which bumps $pkgver to 1.61.1 after the source tarball has already been downloaded as playwright-1.61.0.tar.gz. When package() then references $srcdir/playwright-1.61.1.tar.gz, it doesn't exist → npm error ENOENT.

Fix for the maintainer: keep the pinned pkgver in sync with each upstream release (set it to 1.61.1 now).

Workaround for users: edit the PKGBUILD locally to set pkgver=1.61.1, delete src/ and pkg/, then run makepkg -si directly instead of paru -S playwright (paru re-fetches the PKGBUILD from AUR on each run, undoing the edit).

Looks like the PKGBUILD is downloading version 161 (just released yesterday), but still referencing 160. Just a heads-up!

.SRCINFO was not updated

PKGBUILD has pkgrel 2 so the version should have been 1.59.1.-2.

But this page shows "Package Details: playwright 1.59.1-1".

"yay -Si playwright" shows "1.59.1-1".

"curl -s https://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-v1.json.gz | zcat | grep -m1 playwright" shows "1.59.1-1"

This causes playwright to be reinstalled over and over again on "yay -Syyuu --needed" even though nothing changed in PKGBUILD.

Anyone knows what causes this?

playwright: /usr/bin/playwright exists in filesystem (owned by python-playwright)

Honestly, Playwright on Arch gave me such headaches. Using in for testing i found out that you can force e2e tests to use the system browser instead of the bundled.

https://gist.github.com/mewset/44d4b5f21d3d00587a50190aa85cb692

Hi, just installed 1.56.1-1 and am getting this during bunx playwright install: Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. Please install them with the following command: sudo npx playwright install-deps Alternatively, use apt: sudo apt-get install libicu74 libxml2 libvpx9 libflite1 Could these also be added as dependencies?

Hi, I just installed 1.54.0-1 and ran playwright install.

I lost the initial playwright message telling me I had missing libraries, but I had to install the following additional dependencies libffi7 harfbuzz-icu woff2 libxml2-legacy icu66 hyphen enchant libevdev libgudev libwebp0.5.

Maybe those could be added as dependencies as well.

Hi AlphaJack,

I just installed 1.48.2-1 and ran playwright install and received the following:

Playwright Host validation warning: 
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
║ Missing libraries:                                   ║
║     libicudata.so.66                                 ║
║     libicui18n.so.66                                 ║
║     libicuuc.so.66                                   ║
║     libwebp.so.6                                     ║
║     libflite_cmu_grapheme_lang.so.1                  ║
║     libflite_cmu_grapheme_lex.so.1                   ║
║     libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1                       ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_awb.so.1                         ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1                         ║
║     libflite_cmu_us_rms.so.1                         ║
║     libpcre.so.3                                     ║
║     libffi.so.7                                      ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
    at validateDependenciesLinux (/usr/lib/node_modules/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/dependencies.js:216:9)
    at async Registry._validateHostRequirements (/usr/lib/node_modules/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:707:43)
    at async Registry._validateHostRequirementsForExecutableIfNeeded (/usr/lib/node_modules/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:805:7)
    at async Registry.validateHostRequirementsForExecutablesIfNeeded (/usr/lib/node_modules/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/server/registry/index.js:794:43)
    at async t.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/playwright/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/cli/program.js:119:7)

So I guess 1.48.2 fixed some of the missing dependencies, but not all of them.

Ultimately I was able to get it working following these steps: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/2621#issuecomment-2083083392

Thank you!

@laura7089 Thank you for reporting, I added some dependencies in the 1.48.2 version. Can you confirm it works again now?