How to implement chromedriver in selenium in Linux platform - selenium

Question

Can somebody tell me how to use the Chrome driver in Selenium for Linux platform?
I have my chrome driver location at username/home/chromedriver.
My code is:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/home/username/ChromeDriver/chrome‌​driver");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("facebook.com");
The error I am getting is:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to either launch or
connect to Chrome. Please check that ChromeDriver is up-to-date.
Using Chrome binary at: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
(WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Answer 1

From [the official documentation](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver:
Requirements
The ChromeDriver controls the browser using Chrome's automation proxy
framework.
The server expects you to have Chrome installed in the default
location for each system:
OS Expected Location of Chrome
-------------------------------------
Linux /usr/bin/google-chrome
Mac /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
Windows XP %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Windows Vista C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
For Linux systems, the ChromeDriver expects /usr/bin/google-chrome to be a symlink to the actual Chrome binary. See also the section on overriding the Chrome binary location.
Getting Started
To get set up, first
download the
appropriate prebuilt server. Make sure the server can be located on
your PATH or specify its location via the webdriver.chrome.driver
system property. Finally, all you need to do is create a new
ChromeDriver instance:
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
Therefore, download the version of chromedriver you need, unzip it somewhere on your PATH (or specify the path to it via a system property), then run the driver.

Answer 2

We have installed Successfully
sudo apt-get install unzip
wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.10/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P ~/Downloads
unzip ~/Downloads/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/Downloads
chmod +x ~/Downloads/chromedriver
sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver
Change the directory to /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
Now run the script and add the following in the environment file.
Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app| client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :http_client => client) end
Capybara.javascript_driver = :chrome
Note : Change the chrome driver version according to your operating system type like 32 bit or 64 bit.

Answer 3

Here is a complete script for Linux 18.04 to install Google Chrome and the chrome driver. It should automatically adjust to collect the correct chrome driver for the browser.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# install the latest version of Chrome and the Chrome Driver
apt-get update && apt-get install -y libnss3-dev
version=$(curl http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE)
wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/${version}/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip -d /usr/local/bin
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb; apt-get -fy install

Answer 4

For me worked with these commands:
Unziped the file -> unzip -q chromedriver_linux64.zip
Force the copy to the directory 'usr/bin' -> sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/bin
The selenium code was something like that.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/usr/bin/chromedriver");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://mvnrepository.com");
driver.close();

Answer 5

You can see small example from this example
For linux, i downlaod chrome driver and keep as system path variable(or put in exist path folder). And from code i use following ways (add property and initiate with path of chrome driver)
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");
ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
.usingDriverExecutable(new File("/usr/local/bin/chromedriver"))
.usingAnyFreePort()
.build();
try {
service.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return new RemoteWebDriver(service.getUrl(), DesiredCapabilities.chrome());