Minimal Ubuntu server image, no desktop installed. The install completed and the engine is on disk, but any UI scenario dies before the first step:
browserType.launch: Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers.
Missing libraries:
libnss3.so
libnspr4.so
libatk-1.0.so.0API scenarios run perfectly on the same box, so the install itself is fine. Do I need a desktop environment?
Accepted answer
No desktop needed — you need the shared libraries the engine links against, which a minimal server image does not ship. That install needs root, which is why it is not part of the ordinary installer run:
sudo sdods browsers install -b chromium --with-deps--with-deps is the part that matters; without it you download the same engine again and it still cannot start. Nothing about your SDODS install is wrong, and you do not need to reinstall anything.
For an image you build rather than a box you keep, put the dependency install in the image and leave the engine download to the run. Then the layer that needs root is separate from the layer that changes every release, which is also the one you want cached.
And if that box only ever runs API scenarios, install nothing at all:
curl -fsSL https://sdods.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --browsers nonesdods doctor reports this one directly rather than making you read a launch stack trace — the browser checks probe the executable, so you get a line per engine and you can tell "not downloaded" from "downloaded and cannot start".
sdods doctorLanded here from a search after hitting the same thing on Debian slim. Worth saying out loud for the next person: the missing library list is not always the same on every distribution, so do not go hunting for libnss3 by hand. --with-deps resolves the set for the distribution it is running on.
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