Puppeteer problem: Failed to launch the browser process! spawn /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable ENOENT

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Hi,

I am trying to use Puppeteer in a webservice, but I keep getting this error:

PDF Generation Error: Error: Failed to launch the browser process! spawn /usr/bin/chromium ENOENT

I am launching it like this:

…

import puppeteer from ‘puppeteer-core’;
…

app.post(‘/generate-pdf’, async (req, res) => {
console.log(‘PDF generation request received’);
let browser = null;

try {
const { url, filename } = req.body;

if (!url) {
  console.log('No URL provided');
  return res.status(400).json({ error: 'URL is required' });
}

console.log(`Launching browser to capture: ${url}...`);
browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  headless: true,
  executablePath: process.env.PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH || '/usr/bin/chromium',
  args: [
    '--no-sandbox',
    '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
    '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
    '--single-process',
    '--disable-gpu',
    '--font-render-hinting=none'
  ]
});

And this is my package.json:

{
“name”: “pdf-generation-service”,
“version”: “1.0.0”,
“description”: “CV PDF generation service”,
“main”: “generate-pdf.js”,
“type”: “module”,
“scripts”: {
“start”: “node renderservice.js”,
“build”: “chmod +x render-build.sh && ./render-build.sh”
},
“dependencies”: {
“cors”: “^2.8.5”,
“express”: “^4.18.2”,
“puppeteer-core”: “^21.5.0”
},
“engines”: {
“node”: “18.x”
}
}

I tried a lot of things, the latest one being the one described here:

in : …/9848/2

Any idea what can be going on?

Tahnks!

Jorge