Fix: beginner devcontainer cannot install Playwright on Debian 11 - #91
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The level cannot start in a fresh Codespace. post-create.sh runs
`npx playwright install --with-deps chromium`, which fails on Debian 11:
E: Failed to fetch .../bullseye-security/.../libglx-mesa0_20.3.5-1+deb11u1 404
E: Failed to fetch .../bullseye-security/.../libxfont2_2.0.4-1+deb11u1 404
post-create.sh uses `set -e`, so it aborts there, no browser is ever
installed, and the tests report:
Executable doesn't exist at .../chrome-headless-shell
Please run: npx playwright install
That advice fails the same way. Reproduced on a freshly pulled
mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:bullseye on both amd64 and arm64,
with a healthy apt index.
Debian 12 installs the same packages cleanly, and Playwright has dropped
Debian 11 entirely: 1.62 refuses with "does not support chromium on
debian11-x64" before it looks at any library, so the existing `^1.61.0`
range would break again on the next lockfile refresh.
Verified on bookworm with the level otherwise unchanged, so the challenge
itself is unaffected:
- npm ci, playwright install --with-deps chromium: both succeed
- chromium.executablePath() resolves a real Chrome for Lighthouse's CHROME_PATH
- npm run test:a11y fails on color-contrast, image-alt and the keyboard
test, which are the level's intentional bugs
- npm run test:lighthouse scores 80, matching what the level documents
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: sindurigf <sinduri.g@gmail.com>
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Problem
post-create.shrunsnpx playwright install --with-deps chromium, which fails:libglx-mesa0andlibxfont2both 404 from the bullseye-security poolset -e, so it aborts there and no browser is ever installedExecutable doesn't exist at .../chrome-headless-shell, and thenpx playwright installit suggests fails the same waybase:bullseye, on amd64 and arm64Fix
base:bullseye→base:bookwormWhy not stay on Debian 11
does not support chromium on debian11-x64^1.61.0range picks up 1.62 on the next lockfile refresh, so any Debian 11 workaround is temporaryVerified on bookworm, level otherwise unchanged
npm ciandplaywright install --with-deps chromiumboth succeedchromium.executablePath()resolves a real Chrome, so Lighthouse'sCHROME_PATHworksnpm run test:a11yfails oncolor-contrast,image-altand the keyboard test, which are the intentional bugsnpm run test:lighthousescores 80, as documentedpackage.json, lockfile, tests,verify.sh, or challenge contentFor reviewers
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