Installing apt packages for puppeteer

Hi, im trying to run puppeteer on Railway but am getting an error that it cant find some packages. I had the same issue when selfhosting and fixed it by apt installing some stuff. How can i do this on Railway?

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Nixpacks has ton of additional packages that you can provide to your build through a nixpacks.toml file in the root of your service dir
for example:

[phases.setup]
  aptPkgs = [
    'fonts-liberation',
    'libappindicator3-1',
    'libasound2',
    'libatk-bridge2.0-0',
    'libatk1.0-0',
    'libgbm1',
    'libgtk-3-0',
    'libnspr4',
    'libnss3',
    'libx11-xcb1',
    'libxcomposite1',
    'libxcursor1',
    'libxdamage1',
    'libxfixes3',
    'libxi6',
    'libxrandr2',
    'libxss1',
    'libxtst6',
    'xdg-utils'
    ]

just put your aptPkgs there and try building it

Thanks!

you can search for the package in https://search.nixos.org/packages
if it exists/is supported
and you can read more about nixpacks config at https://docs.railway.app/deploy/config-as-code

may I ask what you are doing with puppeteer?

i was using it for a whatsapp bot but saw it wasnt allowed, im now rebuilding my bot into a mobile app 😛

hey good on you! I wish you luck with that!