Add Ubuntu 24.04 prerequisites

[MikeMcC399]

• closes Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate on Ubuntu 24.04 #5816

Issue

Following the instructions Getting Started > Installing Cypress > Linux Prerequisites > Ubuntu/Debian on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) LTS for package installation:

apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb

results in warnings and an error message:

Note, selecting 'libgtk2.0-0t64' instead of 'libgtk2.0-0'
Note, selecting 'libgtk-3-0t64' instead of 'libgtk-3-0'
E: Package 'libasound2' has no installation candidate

Change

For Ubuntu 24.04 make the following changes

Package	Ubuntu <= 23.10 (current)	Ubuntu 24.04 (new)
alsa-lib	libasound2	libasound2t64
gtk+2.0	libgtk2.0-0	libgtk2.0-0t64
gtk+3.0	libgtk-3-0	libgtk-3-0t64

The package installation for Ubuntu 24.04 is added with:

apt-get install libgtk2.0-0t64 libgtk-3-0t64 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libnss3 libxss1 libasound2t64 libxtst6 xauth xvfb

Background

According to the Ubuntu 24.04 release notes in the section Year 2038 support for the armhf architecture

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.

References

• Ubuntu wiki > List of releases
• Ubuntu 24.04 release notes
• Ubuntu alsa-lib package overview
• Ubuntu gtk+2.0 package overview
• Ubuntu gtk+3.0 package overview

Verification

On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop

Verify package installation

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0t64 libgtk-3-0t64 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libnss3 libxss1 libasound2t64 libxtst6 xauth xvfb

Should produce no errors or warnings.

Note that the Desktop edition already has the following packages installed by default:

libgtk2.0-0t64 is already the newest version (2.24.33-4ubuntu1).
libgtk-3-0t64 is already the newest version (3.24.41-4ubuntu1).
libnss3 is already the newest version (2:3.98-1build1).
libxss1 is already the newest version (1:1.2.3-1build3).
libasound2t64 is already the newest version (1.2.11-1build2).
libxtst6 is already the newest version (2:1.2.3-1.1build1).
xauth is already the newest version (1:1.1.2-1build1).

Verify Cypress runs

sudo apt-get install git make curl
curl -L https://bit.ly/n-install | bash
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir cypress-io
cd cypress-io
git clone https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-kitchensink
cd cypress-example-kitchensink
n auto
npm ci
npm run local:run

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