diff --git a/src/server/validateDependencies.ts b/src/server/validateDependencies.ts
index 38c26c2160aade..cd80c6b10093c5 100644
--- a/src/server/validateDependencies.ts
+++ b/src/server/validateDependencies.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ 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));
+const readFileAsync = util.promisify(fs.readFile.bind(fs));
 
 export async function validateDependencies(browserPath: string, browser: BrowserDescriptor) {
   // We currently only support Linux.
@@ -34,15 +35,49 @@ export async function validateDependencies(browserPath: string, browser: Browser
   for (const directoryPath of directoryPaths)
     lddPaths.push(...(await executablesOrSharedLibraries(directoryPath)));
   const allMissingDeps = await Promise.all(lddPaths.map(lddPath => missingFileDependencies(lddPath)));
-  const missingDeps = new Set();
+  const missingDeps : Set<string> = 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 the following dependencies to run browser\n' + deps);
+  // Check Ubuntu version.
+  const missingPackages = new Set();
+  const osRelease = await readFileAsync('/etc/os-release', 'utf8').catch(e => '');
+  const [ubuntuName = '', ubuntuVersion = ''] = osRelease.trim().split('\n');
+  if (ubuntuName.toLowerCase().includes('ubuntu') && ubuntuVersion.includes('18.04')) {
+    // Translate missing dependencies to package names to install with apt.
+    for (const missingDep of missingDeps) {
+      const packageName = LIBRARY_TO_PACKAGE_NAME_UBUNTU_18_04[missingDep];
+      if (packageName) {
+        missingPackages.add(packageName);
+        missingDeps.delete(missingDep);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  let missingPackagesMessage = ''
+  if (missingPackages.size) {
+    missingPackagesMessage = [
+      `  Install missing packages with:`,
+      `      apt-get install -y ${[...missingPackages].join('\\\n          ')}`,
+      ``,
+      ``,
+    ].join('\n');
+  }
+
+  let missingDependenciesMessage = '';
+  if (missingDeps.size) {
+    const header = missingPackages.size ? `Missing libraries we didn't find packages for:` : `Missing libraries are:`;
+    missingDependenciesMessage = [
+      `  ${header}`,
+      `      ${[...missingDeps].join('\n      ')}`,
+      ``,
+    ].join('\n');
+  }
+
+  throw new Error('Host system is missing dependencies!\n\n' + missingPackagesMessage + missingDependenciesMessage);
 }
 
 async function executablesOrSharedLibraries(directoryPath: string): Promise<string[]> {
@@ -86,3 +121,89 @@ function lddAsync(filePath: string): Promise<{stdout: string, stderr: string, co
     ldd.on('close', code => resolve({stdout, stderr, code}));
   });
 }
+
+// This list is generated with https://gist.github.com/aslushnikov/2766200430228c3700537292fccad064
+const LIBRARY_TO_PACKAGE_NAME_UBUNTU_18_04: { [s: string]: string} = {
+  'libEGL.so.1': 'libegl1',
+  'libGL.so.1': 'libgl1',
+  'libX11-xcb.so.1': 'libx11-xcb1',
+  'libX11.so.6': 'libx11-6',
+  'libXcomposite.so.1': 'libxcomposite1',
+  'libXcursor.so.1': 'libxcursor1',
+  'libXdamage.so.1': 'libxdamage1',
+  'libXext.so.6': 'libxext6',
+  'libXfixes.so.3': 'libxfixes3',
+  'libXi.so.6': 'libxi6',
+  'libXrandr.so.2': 'libxrandr2',
+  'libXrender.so.1': 'libxrender1',
+  'libXt.so.6': 'libxt6',
+  'libXtst.so.6': 'libxtst6',
+  'libasound.so.2': 'libasound2',
+  'libatk-1.0.so.0': 'libatk1.0-0',
+  'libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0': 'libatk-bridge2.0-0',
+  'libatspi.so.0': 'libatspi2.0-0',
+  'libbrotlidec.so.1': 'libbrotli1',
+  'libcairo-gobject.so.2': 'libcairo-gobject2',
+  'libcairo.so.2': 'libcairo2',
+  'libcups.so.2': 'libcups2',
+  'libdbus-1.so.3': 'libdbus-1-3',
+  'libdbus-glib-1.so.2': 'libdbus-glib-1-2',
+  'libdrm.so.2': 'libdrm2',
+  'libenchant.so.1': 'libenchant1c2a',
+  'libepoxy.so.0': 'libepoxy0',
+  'libfontconfig.so.1': 'libfontconfig1',
+  'libfreetype.so.6': 'libfreetype6',
+  'libgbm.so.1': 'libgbm1',
+  'libgdk-3.so.0': 'libgtk-3-0',
+  'libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0': 'libgtk2.0-0',
+  'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0': 'libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0',
+  'libgio-2.0.so.0': 'libglib2.0-0',
+  'libglib-2.0.so.0': 'libglib2.0-0',
+  'libgmodule-2.0.so.0': 'libglib2.0-0',
+  'libgobject-2.0.so.0': 'libglib2.0-0',
+  'libgstapp-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgstaudio-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgstbase-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer1.0-0',
+  'libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0',
+  'libgstfft-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgstgl-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-gl1.0-0',
+  'libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgstreamer-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer1.0-0',
+  'libgsttag-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgstvideo-1.0.so.0': 'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0',
+  'libgthread-2.0.so.0': 'libglib2.0-0',
+  'libgtk-3.so.0': 'libgtk-3-0',
+  'libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0': 'libgtk2.0-0',
+  'libharfbuzz-icu.so.0': 'libharfbuzz-icu0',
+  'libharfbuzz.so.0': 'libharfbuzz0b',
+  'libhyphen.so.0': 'libhyphen0',
+  'libicui18n.so.60': 'libicu60',
+  'libicuuc.so.60': 'libicu60',
+  'libjpeg.so.8': 'libjpeg-turbo8',
+  'libnotify.so.4': 'libnotify4',
+  'libnspr4.so': 'libnspr4',
+  'libnss3.so': 'libnss3',
+  'libnssutil3.so': 'libnss3',
+  'libopenjp2.so.7': 'libopenjp2-7',
+  'libopus.so.0': 'libopus0',
+  'libpango-1.0.so.0': 'libpango-1.0-0',
+  'libpangocairo-1.0.so.0': 'libpangocairo-1.0-0',
+  'libpangoft2-1.0.so.0': 'libpangoft2-1.0-0',
+  'libpng16.so.16': 'libpng16-16',
+  'libsecret-1.so.0': 'libsecret-1-0',
+  'libsmime3.so': 'libnss3',
+  'libssl3.so': 'libnss3',
+  'libwayland-client.so.0': 'libwayland-client0',
+  'libwayland-egl.so.1': 'libwayland-egl1',
+  'libwayland-server.so.0': 'libwayland-server0',
+  'libwebp.so.6': 'libwebp6',
+  'libwebpdemux.so.2': 'libwebpdemux2',
+  'libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2': 'libwoff1',
+  'libxcb-dri3.so.0': 'libxcb-dri3-0',
+  'libxcb-shm.so.0': 'libxcb-shm0',
+  'libxcb.so.1': 'libxcb1',
+  'libxkbcommon.so.0': 'libxkbcommon0',
+  'libxml2.so.2': 'libxml2',
+  'libxslt.so.1': 'libxslt1.1',
+};
+