How to install Google Chrome on WSL

  • YC YC
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  • 11 January 2022
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There are times where you need a headless browser to run some test suite or run some jobs to generate files like critical css. This guide will show you how to install headless Google Chrome on Linux or WSL

Installing Google Chrome

  1. Ensure your dependencies are up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
  1. Download and install Google Chrome
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt -y install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  1. Verify if Google Chrome installation is successful
which google-chrome
google-chrome --version

Troubleshooting

If you encounter this error:

Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/e/workspace/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-722234/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/e/workspace/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:750:14)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (/e/workspace/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:739:50)
    at Interface.emit (node:events:402:35)
    at Interface.close (node:readline:586:8)
    at Socket.onend (node:readline:277:10)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:402:35)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1343:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

Install the following lib should fix the error.

sudo apt-get install -y libxss1
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A Senior Software Developer from Singapore that gets tired after writing few lines of code. I code professionally in Golang and specialize in developing efficient and scalable backend systems.

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