libasound2 has no installation candidate on ubuntu-latest or ubuntu-24.04

[stephanschielke]

jobs:
  ui-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    steps:
      - name: "Install Chrome Browser"
        uses: browser-actions/setup-chrome@v1
        with:
          chrome-version: latest
          install-dependencies: true

fails with:

/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
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package libasound2 is a virtual package provided by:
  liboss4-salsa-asound2 4.2-build2020-1ubuntu3
  libasound2t64 1.2.11-1build2 (= 1.2.11-1build2)

E: Unable to locate package libgconf-2-4
E: Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate
Error: The process '/usr/bin/sudo' failed with exit code 100

Can be hotfixed by pinning the ubuntu version to ubuntu-22.04

[chloe5685]

Same problem here

[lykmapipo]

Logs:

Operating System
  Ubuntu
  24.04.1
  LTS
  
Runner Image
  Image: ubuntu-24.04
  Version: 20241006.1.0

Run browser-actions/setup-chrome@v1
  with:
    chrome-version: 130.0.6690.0
    install-dependencies: true
    install-chromedriver: true
    no-sudo: false

Fails with:

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
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package libasound2 is a virtual package provided by:
  liboss4-salsa-asound2 4.2-build2020-1ubuntu3
  libasound2t64 1.2.11-1build2 (= 1.2.11-1build2)

E: Unable to locate package libgconf-2-4
E: Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate
Error: The process '/usr/bin/sudo' failed with exit code 100

[MikeMcC399]

This issue needs an enhancement to the action, so that it differentiates according to the version of Debian / Ubuntu in use.

The Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) Release Notes explain in the section "Year 2038 support for the armhf architecture":

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS solves the Year 2038 problem 2.0k that existed on armhf. More than a thousand packages have been updated to handle time using a 64-bit value rather than a 32-bit one, making it possible to handle times up to 292 billion years in the future.

That is the reason for the new name libasound2t64 with t64 at the end.

[itslenny]

I hit this same issue on Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10. I recently updated my C# project to DotNet 9.0 which currently requires 24.10 so if I want to use the same build machine for that project I HAVE TO run 24.10.

For me the work around was to set install-dependencies: false and manually install the dependencies on the machine. You could probably also run this as a build step before setup-chrome.

I found this list of dependencies from some other issues about running chrome on 24.10 and a little trial and error. I'm not 100% sure that all of these dependencies are required, but adding them made it work. So I'm happy for now. Hope this helps someone else.

sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
  libnss3 \
  libdbus-1-3 \
  libatk1.0-0 \
  libasound2t64 \
  libxrandr2 \
  libxkbcommon-dev \
  libxfixes3 \
  libxcomposite1 \
  libxdamage1 \
  libgbm-dev \
  libatk-bridge2.0-0 \
  binutils \
  libglib2.0-0 \
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
  libgtk-3-0 \
  libnss3-dev \
  libxss-dev \
  xvfb \
  fonts-liberation \
  libu2f-udev \
  xdg-utils