Unable to install

[homanchou]

When running mix playwright.install I get the following error:

00:01:40.922 [info] Installing playwright browsers and dependencies
sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper
sudo: a password is required

00:01:41.135 [info] Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
Failed to install browsers
Error: Installation process exited with code: 1

** (RuntimeError) Failed to install playwright browsers
    (playwright 1.44.0-alpha.3) lib/playwright/sdk/cli.ex:13: Playwright.SDK.CLI.install/0
    (mix 1.17.2) lib/mix/task.ex:495: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/5
    (mix 1.17.2) lib/mix/cli.ex:96: Mix.CLI.run_task/2
    /home/titan/.kiex/elixirs/elixir-1.17.2-/bin/mix:2: (file)

I'm running this on ubuntu terminal of window subsystem for linux 2 if that makes a difference. Any suggestions?

[armanm]

Looking at the code it looks like mix playwright.install is making a direct call to Playwright's driver cli to take care of installing its dependencies (browsers and FFmpeg). Is it possible that NodeJS is not installed properly on your machine?

https://github.com/mechanical-orchard/playwright-elixir/blob/bdda4eebb4560ff5c404e4257a83ac8bea6b0fbe/lib/playwright/sdk/cli.ex#L11

One possible way I can think of to diagnose the issue is to run npx playwright install. npx playwright install will download the PlayWright driver to your machine and then attempts to install its dependencies which is what the Mix task wants to do via a System.cmd/2. This should hopefully show better messages about the underlying issue.

[0xMikeAdams]

In order to successfully execute mix playwright.install you'll need to downgrade to version: 1.18.0-alpha.1.