Error installing dependencies on Ubuntu self-hosted runnner

[jasons42]

Running into a strange error when trying to install dependencies on a self-hosted Ubuntu runner.

sudo apt-get update runs normally but then it seems like apt-get cannot be found when running the install command.

Run browser-actions/setup-chrome@facf10a55b9caf92e0cc749b4f82bf8220989148
Installing dependencies
/usr/bin/sudo apt-get update
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Reading package lists...
/usr/bin/sudo apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends libglib2.0-0 libgconf-2-4 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnss3-dev libxss-dev libasound2 xvfb fonts-liberation libu2f-udev xdg-utils
sudo: apt-get: command not found
Error: The process '/usr/bin/sudo' failed with exit code 1

Action config:

      - name: Setup Chrome
        uses: browser-actions/setup-chrome@facf10a55b9caf92e0cc749b4f82bf8220989148 # pin@v1
        id: setup-chrome
        with:
          install-dependencies: true

Ubuntu version info:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

I was able to workaround this issue by adding my own step to install deps, which should be running the exact same commands:

      - name: Install Chrome dependencies
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libglib2.0-0 libgconf-2-4 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 \
            libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnss3-dev libxss-dev libasound2 xvfb fonts-liberation \
            libu2f-udev xdg-utils

[ueokande]

@jasons42 Thanks for your report. Can you reproduce it on GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runner? If it occurs only in the self-hosted runner, some configuration on.it would be wrong.

[igorbrites]

Facing the same issue with self-hosted runners, though if you notice @jasons42 logs, sudo apt-get update works right before the sudo apt-get install. How apt-get get missing right after it's being called?

[xxsvk]

Have the same issue. Have a dynamic self-hosted runners, so chrome has to be installed with every run. Will you investigate it ?

[lyledouglass]

Same issue here using the latest runner image - will this be investigated?

[gallowaystorm]

I am facing this same issue as well with self hosted runner. I have the sudo apt-get command running before too in a seperate step with no issue

[tr3pan]

The issue is the environment variables are replaced when a dictionary is passed here: https://github.com/browser-actions/actions-swing/blob/master/src/pkg/distributions.ts#L45 . The first apt-get command works, because the environment is not set.

The reason this issue happens on self-hosted runners is the settings in /etc/sudoers file is

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Defaults env_keep += "DEBIAN_FRONTEND"

sudo is executed with environment without PATH variable which leads apt-get can't be found.

In comparison with my Ubuntu 22.04 WSL instance:

Defaults        env_reset
Defaults        mail_badpass
Defaults        secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"
Defaults        use_pty

where sudo will use secure_path as PATH variable.