Setting up Puppeteer on Debian arm64 node.js

setting-up-puppeteer-debian-arm64.md

To setup Puppeteer on Debian arm 64 do the following steps:

1. Open terminal and run the following commands

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser
sudo apt-get remove chromium
sudo apt-get install chromium
whereis chromium

2. whereis chromium would tell you the path of installed chromium e.g.

chromium: /usr/bin/chromium /usr/lib/chromium /etc/chromium.d /etc/chromium /usr/share/chromium /usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1.gz

3. Note this value and go inside your nodejs project.
4. When installing puppeteer install like below

npm i puppeteer --ignore-scripts

5. above will install puppeteer package without isntalling the chomium itself
6. launch chromium as below

Puppeteer.launch({ args, headless: true, executablePath: "/usr/bin/chromium"})