Bug: Orb doesn't work on a Playwright base image

[acsbendi]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Orb version

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Current behavior

The recommended way to run Playwright integration tests on CircleCI is to use the official Playwright Docker image. However, this image doesn't contain xz-utils and trying to use the qlty orb here fails:

error: xz is required to install qlty

Installing xz-utils manually also doesn't always work, due to errors like this:

Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 xz-utils amd64 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2
  Connection failed [IP: 185.125.190.83 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.6.1%2breally5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb  Connection failed [IP: 185.125.190.83 80]

and even when it does work, it's very slow (4+ minutes).

The only current workaround is to force HTTPS requests:

      - run:
          name: Install xz-utils (for qlty)
          command: |
            sed -i 's|http://archive.ubuntu.com|https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/ubuntu|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
            sed -i 's|http://security.ubuntu.com|https://security.ubuntu.com|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
            apt-get update
            apt-get install -y xz-utils

If nothing else works, this can probably be included in the orb itself.

Minimum reproduction config

version: 2.1
orbs:
  qlty: qltysh/qlty-orb@0.1.0

workflows:
  build_workflow:
    jobs:
      - test:
          name: run_linting_and_tests

jobs:
  test:
    working_directory: ~/repo
    docker:
      - image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.54.2
    environment:
      # Project-specific qlty token for code coverage
      QLTY_COVERAGE_TOKEN: <some-token>
    resource_class: large
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: Update npm
          command: 'npm install -g npm@latest'
      - restore_cache:
          key: dependency-cache-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
      - run:
          name: Install dependencies
          command: 'npm install --legacy-peer-deps'
      - save_cache:
          key: dependency-cache-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}
          paths:
            - ./node_modules
      - run:
          name: Linting
          command: npm run lint
      - run:
          name: Tests
          command: npm test
          environment:
            NODE_OPTIONS: --max-old-space-size=8192
      - qlty/coverage_publish:
          files: ./coverage/lcov.info
          tag: integration-tests

Other

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