[Bug]: old fallback selected during install-deps when not using Ubuntu

[WhyAsh5114]

Version

1.42.1

Steps to reproduce

No minimal repro, as it's a bug in install-deps

1. Try running npx playwright install-deps on a Linux distro based on Ubuntu 22.04, I used Zorin OS 17.1

Expected behavior

Ubuntu 22.04 should be selected as fallback instead of 20.04. Expected:

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for ubuntu22.04-x64 as a fallback.

Actual behavior

BEWARE: your OS is not officially supported by Playwright; installing dependencies for ubuntu20.04-x64 as a fallback.
Installing dependencies...
Switching to root user to install dependencies...
Hit:2 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease                                                                                                  
Hit:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease                                                                                                       
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                                                                              
Hit:4 https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared jammy InRelease                                                                                                           
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]                                                                                              
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                                                                      
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]                                                                               
Hit:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                           
Hit:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/apps/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                                    
Hit:10 https://packages.zorinos.com/stable jammy InRelease                                                      
Hit:11 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/drivers/ubuntu jammy InRelease 
Hit:12 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/patches/ubuntu jammy InRelease 
Hit:13 https://packages.zorinos.com/patches jammy InRelease                    
Hit:14 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu jammy InRelease 
Hit:15 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:16 https://packages.zorinos.com/apps jammy InRelease
Hit:17 https://packages.zorinos.com/drivers jammy InRelease
Fetched 229 kB in 3s (67.6 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libfontconfig1' instead of 'libfontconfig'
Package ttf-ubuntu-font-family is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package ttf-unifont is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  fonts-unifont

E: Package 'ttf-unifont' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'ttf-ubuntu-font-family' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libx264-155
E: Unable to locate package libenchant1c2a
E: Unable to locate package libicu66
E: Unable to locate package libvpx6
E: Unable to locate package libwebp6
Failed to install browser dependencies
Error: Installation process exited with code: 100

Additional context

Maybe add an option in the install-deps command for manual fallback version selection?

Environment

System:
    OS: Linux 6.5 Zorin OS 17.1 17.1
    CPU: (6) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics
    Memory: 2.65 GB / 7.14 GB
    Container: Yes
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.4.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/npm
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.87.2 - /usr/bin/code
  Languages:
    Bash: 5.1.16 - /usr/bin/bash
  npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.42.1 => 1.42.1

[Lambdac0re]

+1

[cdmatta]

+1

[magork]

Is this resolved?

[mxschmitt]

Looks like this requires a similar hack to https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/a28f51a0f31b9499849c481b3658d0985b223c06/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/hostPlatform.ts#L69

We are open to a contribution but don't plan to work on it. I'll close it for now, since this is not a priority for us. Feel free to create a PR and linking to this issue.

[pavelfeldman]

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