Command failed in puppeteer - The chromium binary is not available for arm64

[beccajellinek]

I'm following the installation instructions so I can track user actions locally. I'm using an M1 Mac. During yarn process I receive the following error:

error /Users/rebecca.jellinek/dev/browser-sdk/node_modules/puppeteer: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node install.js
Arguments:
Directory: /Users/rebecca.jellinek/dev/browser-sdk/node_modules/puppeteer
Output:
The chromium binary is not available for arm64.

I've tried installing chromium directly via homebrew but that leads me to another error:

Error: Cask 'chromium' does not have a sha256 checksum defined and was not installed.
This means you have the --require-sha option set, perhaps in your HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS.

From what I've read online, this could be mitigated by changing the dockerfile. I'm hesitant to make changes but could raise a PR if we find something that works.

[BenoitZugmeyer]

I think we should update our puppeteer dependency to support M1 macs (cf this comment from puppeteer contributor)

In the meantime using chromium from brew is the workaround (cf this blog post). I have no idea why brew is failing to install chromium in your case. Editing the Dockerfile won't probably fix it, as it has nothing to do with local development or puppeteer.

[bcaudan]

I had the same issue with chromium from brew but manage to bypass the install error by only putting this variable in my env:

export PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true

[write2aj]

You could try installing chromium using brew.
For my Mac M1 with macOS 12.6 it got installed using the below command.
brew install chromium --no-quarantine and installed it at - /opt/homebrew/bin/chromium. It has the Chromium app in Applications folder as well.

Note - without the --no-quarantine MacOS's Gatekeeper prevents the command from completing the install correctly.

Hope this helps.

[bcaudan]

Should be fixed by #1843, feel free to re-open otherwise.