Your system is missing the dependency: Xvfb on linux Alpine

[ruggero95]

Current behavior

When i try to run

npx cypress run --headless --browser electron

it rejects with:

[FAILED] Your system is missing the dependency: Xvfb

(See more log in section log)

since in the prerequisites section there is no mention of linux Alpine i tried to install following lib:

apk add xvfb xvfb-run x11vnc fluxbox xdpyinfo st vim 

but the error keep raising.

There is any possibility to run cypress on alpine images? In my use case i can't run a cypress docker images since i'm into a gitlab pipeline that is already using docker:dind as base image

Debug logs

[STARTED] Task without title.
[FAILED] Your system is missing the dependency: Xvfb
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Install Xvfb and run Cypress again.
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Read our documentation on dependencies for more information:
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] If you are using Docker, we provide containers with all required dependencies installed.
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Error: spawn Xvfb ENOENT
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Platform: linux-x64 (Alpine Linux - 3.19.1)
[FAILED] Cypress Version: 13.7.1
Your system is missing the dependency: Xvfb
Install Xvfb and run Cypress again.
Read our documentation on dependencies for more information:
https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
If you are using Docker, we provide containers with all required dependencies installed.
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Error: spawn Xvfb ENOENT
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Platform: linux-x64 (Alpine Linux - 3.19.1)
Cypress Version: 13.7.1

Cypress Version

^13.7.1

Node version

20

Package Manager

npm

Package Manager Version

10.5.0

Operating system

Linux

Operating System Version

Alpine Linux - 3.19.1

Other

No response

[MikeMcC399]

@ruggero95

• There is a long history in Alpine Linux support #419 going back 7 years regarding fundamental issues about Cypress not being able to run on Alpine Linux.
• It was also mentioned in Alpine Linux support #419 (comment) that trying to launch the binary results in an ENOENT error. You would also see this if you ran npx cypress verify.

[MikeMcC399]

• I suggest to close this issue as a duplicate of Alpine Linux support #419