[Feature]: Support Ubuntu 24.04

TL;DR

Upgrade to Playwright 1.45 or newer and run playwright install --with-deps again; the dependency install that failed on 24.04 works from that release on.

Steps

1. Ubuntu 24.04 support arrived in Playwright 1.45. Upgrade to Playwright 1.45 or newer and run playwright install --with-deps again; the dependency install that failed on 24.04 works from that release on.
2. https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/30368: Issue microsoft/playwright#30368 (closed, 49 comments): ### 🚀 Feature Request Ubuntu 24 will be released in this month, and the beta version is already release in 12th. (See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases) Hope playweight can add support once it release ### Motivation Cuurently when running pnpm exec playwright install --with-deps on Ubuntu 24.04, errors are thrown ``` Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease [255 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease [89.7 kB] Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease Get:5...

When to use

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When not to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/30368:
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
• http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
• http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Issue gh:microsoft/playwright#30368: the reporter asked: Issue microsoft/playwright#30368 (closed, 49 comments): ### 🚀 Feature Request Ubuntu 24 will be released in this month, and the beta version is already release in 12th. (See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases) Hope playweight can add support once it release ### Motivation Cuurently when running pnpm exec playwright install --with-deps on Ubuntu 24.04, errors are thrown `` Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease [255 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease [89.7 kB] Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease Get:5... The verified answer was: Ubuntu 24.04 support arrived in Playwright 1.45. Upgrade to Playwright 1.45 or newer and run playwright install --with-deps` again; the dependency install that failed on 24.04 works from that release on. Evidence thread: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/30368