diff --git a/src/install/browserPaths.ts b/src/install/browserPaths.ts
index c48073d643d2c..ed0411c1e8c5e 100644
--- a/src/install/browserPaths.ts
+++ b/src/install/browserPaths.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,20 @@ export const hostPlatform = ((): BrowserPlatform => {
   return platform as BrowserPlatform;
 })();
 
+export function linuxLddDirectories(browserPath: string, browser: BrowserDescriptor): string[] {
+  if (browser.name === 'chromium')
+    return [path.join(browserPath, 'chrome-linux')];
+  if (browser.name === 'firefox')
+    return [path.join(browserPath, 'firefox')];
+  if (browser.name === 'webkit') {
+    return [
+      path.join(browserPath, 'linux', 'minibrowser-gtk'),
+      path.join(browserPath, 'linux', 'minibrowser-wpe'),
+    ];
+  }
+  return [];
+}
+
 export function executablePath(browserPath: string, browser: BrowserDescriptor): string | undefined {
   let tokens: string[] | undefined;
   if (browser.name === 'chromium') {
diff --git a/src/server/browserType.ts b/src/server/browserType.ts
index 1c927fde55cea..b5bfe9d5e3485 100644
--- a/src/server/browserType.ts
+++ b/src/server/browserType.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import * as types from '../types';
 import { TimeoutSettings } from '../timeoutSettings';
 import { WebSocketServer } from './webSocketServer';
 import { LoggerSink } from '../loggerSink';
+import { validateDependencies } from './validateDependencies';
 
 type FirefoxPrefsOptions = { firefoxUserPrefs?: { [key: string]: string | number | boolean } };
 type LaunchOptions = types.LaunchOptions & { logger?: LoggerSink };
@@ -62,11 +63,13 @@ export abstract class BrowserTypeBase implements BrowserType {
   private _name: string;
   private _executablePath: string | undefined;
   private _webSocketNotPipe: WebSocketNotPipe | null;
+  private _browserDescriptor: browserPaths.BrowserDescriptor;
   readonly _browserPath: string;
 
   constructor(packagePath: string, browser: browserPaths.BrowserDescriptor, webSocketOrPipe: WebSocketNotPipe | null) {
     this._name = browser.name;
     const browsersPath = browserPaths.browsersPath(packagePath);
+    this._browserDescriptor = browser;
     this._browserPath = browserPaths.browserDirectory(browsersPath, browser);
     this._executablePath = browserPaths.executablePath(this._browserPath, browser);
     this._webSocketNotPipe = webSocketOrPipe;
@@ -186,6 +189,11 @@ export abstract class BrowserTypeBase implements BrowserType {
     if (!executable)
       throw new Error(`No executable path is specified. Pass "executablePath" option directly.`);
 
+    if (!executablePath) {
+      // We can only validate dependencies for bundled browsers.
+      await validateDependencies(this._browserPath, this._browserDescriptor);
+    }
+
     // Note: it is important to define these variables before launchProcess, so that we don't get
     // "Cannot access 'browserServer' before initialization" if something went wrong.
     let transport: ConnectionTransport | undefined = undefined;
diff --git a/src/server/validateDependencies.ts b/src/server/validateDependencies.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4d1f6c3728f88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/validateDependencies.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as util from 'util';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import {spawn} from 'child_process';
+import {linuxLddDirectories, BrowserDescriptor} from '../install/browserPaths.js';
+
+const accessAsync = util.promisify(fs.access.bind(fs));
+const checkExecutable = (filePath: string) => accessAsync(filePath, fs.constants.X_OK).then(() => true).catch(e => false);
+const statAsync = util.promisify(fs.stat.bind(fs));
+const readdirAsync = util.promisify(fs.readdir.bind(fs));
+
+export async function validateDependencies(browserPath: string, browser: BrowserDescriptor) {
+  // We currently only support Linux.
+  if (os.platform() !== 'linux')
+    return;
+  const directoryPaths = linuxLddDirectories(browserPath, browser);
+  const lddPaths: string[] = [];
+  for (const directoryPath of directoryPaths)
+    lddPaths.push(...(await executablesOrSharedLibraries(directoryPath)));
+  const allMissingDeps = await Promise.all(lddPaths.map(lddPath => missingFileDependencies(lddPath)));
+  const missingDeps = new Set();
+  for (const deps of allMissingDeps) {
+    for (const dep of deps)
+      missingDeps.add(dep);
+  }
+  if (!missingDeps.size)
+    return;
+  const deps = [...missingDeps].sort().map(dep => '   ' + dep).join('\n');
+  throw new Error('Host system is missing dependencies to run browser:\n' + deps);
+}
+
+async function executablesOrSharedLibraries(directoryPath: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  const allPaths = (await readdirAsync(directoryPath)).map(file => path.resolve(directoryPath, file));
+  const allStats = await Promise.all(allPaths.map(aPath => statAsync(aPath)));
+  const filePaths = allPaths.filter((aPath, index) => allStats[index].isFile());
+
+  const executablersOrLibraries = (await Promise.all(filePaths.map(async filePath => {
+    const basename = path.basename(filePath).toLowerCase();
+    if (basename.endsWith('.so') || basename.includes('.so.'))
+      return filePath;
+    if (await checkExecutable(filePath))
+      return filePath;
+    return false;
+  }))).filter(Boolean);
+
+  return executablersOrLibraries as string[];
+}
+
+async function missingFileDependencies(filePath: string): Promise<Array<string>> {
+  const {stdout} = await lddAsync(filePath);
+  const missingDeps = stdout.split('\n').map(line => line.trim()).filter(line => line.endsWith('not found') && line.includes('=>')).map(line => line.split('=>')[0].trim());
+  return missingDeps;
+}
+
+function lddAsync(filePath: string): Promise<{stdout: string, stderr: string, code: number}> {
+  const dirname = path.dirname(filePath);
+  const ldd = spawn('ldd', [filePath], {
+    cwd: dirname,
+    env: {
+      ...process.env,
+      LD_LIBRARY_PATH: dirname,
+    },
+  });
+
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let stdout = '';
+    let stderr = '';
+    ldd.stdout.on('data', data => stdout += data);
+    ldd.stderr.on('data', data => stderr += data);
+    ldd.on('close', (code) => {
+      resolve({stdout, stderr, code});
+    });
+  });
+}